socioeconomic factors influencing hospitalized patients with pneumonia due to influenza a(h1n1)pdm09 in mexico社会经济因素影响住院肺炎患者由于甲型流感(h1n1)pdm09在墨西哥.pdf

Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Hospitalized Patients with Pneumonia Due to Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in Mexico 1 2 3 Toshie Manabe , Anjarath Lorena Higuera Iglesias , Maria Eugenia Vazquez Manriquez , Eduarda 4 2 1 1 1 Leticia Martinez Valadez , Leticia Alfaro Ramos , Shinyu Izumi , Jin Takasaki , Koichiro Kudo * 1 Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology Investigation, Research Institute, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico City, Mexico, 3 Department of Pathology, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico City, Mexico, 4 Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico City, Mexico Abstract Background: In addition to clinical aspects and pathogen characteristics, people’s health-related behavior and socioeconomic conditions can affect the occurrence and severity of diseases including influenza A(H1N1)pdm09. Methodology and Principal Findings: A face-to-face interview survey was conducted in a hospital in Mexico City at the time of follow-up consultation for hospitalized patients with pneumonia due to influenza virus infection. In all, 302 subjects were enrolled and divided into two groups based on the period of hospitalization. Among them, 211 tested positive for influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus by real-time reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction during the pandemic period (Group-pdm) and 91 tested positive for influenza A virus in the post-pandemic period (Group-post). All subjects were treate