Fatores de risco para hanseníase identificados a partir de casos notificados num período de 15 anos

Objective: To identify and analyze risk factors for leprosy transmission over a 15-year period. Methods: Quantitative study, historical and observational. Data extracted from the SINAN. Statistical analyzes were the Mann-Whitney U method and spearman correlation in addition to univariate analyzes. Results: During the period, 514 cases were reported, In the univariate analysis model, men arrive at the service to be diagnosed with a greater number of injuries (p-value <0.05), with the clinical forms dimorphic and virchovian, (p-value <0.05) and with Degree of disabilities 1 and 2 (p-value <0.05). In the final model of multivariate analysis performed by means of logistic regression, significance was found for the association between the presence of physical disabilities and being diagnosed with multibacillaries, being over 52 years old and more than 3 injuries at the time of diagnosis.Conclusion: Sex and age have a higher risk of infection with leprosy. Socio-demographic risk factors did not show significance in the clinical variables.