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Causes of hospitalization of female patients in a Pulmonary
Department
L. Tina, G. Blazogiannakis, S. Tzannes
SUMMARY: The aim of this study was to evaluate the causes of hospitalization
of female patients in a Pulmonary Department. We studied the female patients
that had been hospitalized in our clinic during the last four years (1996-1999).
We grouped our female patients in pulmonary disease-categories, studied the
group number of the hospitalized females for the last four years and for each
year, separately. We did not take under consideration those patients who had
been admitted to our department for the same cause. Subsequently, 1055 female
patients were found to be hospitalized in our clinic for the last four years.
Comparing the whole number of patients being hospitalized, we did not found
any statistical difference. Comparing the group-number of individuals, we did
not prove any statistical difference in the annual incidence of each disease.
In conclusion, the most important causes of female-patients hospitalization
were COPD (25%), pulmonary infection (14%), bronchial asthma (13%), lung cancer (12%) and pneumonia (9%). Other pulmonary diseases as tuberculosis, sarcoidosis,
collagen diseases of the lung, represent a smaller percentage. At the same time,
2084 male patients were hospitalized in our department. Out of them, 29.7%
were suffering from lung cancer, 29.2% from COPD, 7.9% from pneumonia, 5.4%
from respiratory infection and 3.74% from asthma. There was a statistical
significant difference in the incidence of COPD, lung cancer and bronchial asthma
between males and females that were hospitalized for that time period (p<0,001).
Pneumon 2001, 14(1):74-80
Key words: Women, pulmonary diseases, morbidity.
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