Helicobacter pylori, níveis séricos de ferritina, vitamina B12, ácido fólico e a dinâmica da infecção em indivíduos de uma comunidade de baixa renda

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Fialho, Andréa Bessa Campelo Braga
• Orientador(a): Vasconcelos , Paulo Roberto Leitão de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Helicobacter pylori; Anemia; Ferritinas
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/7284

Helicobacter pylori infection is one the most prevalent infections in the world. There is a strong evidence that it is acquired in childhood. Therefore epidemiological studies in children are essential to understand the dynamics of this infection and also to evaluate the possible consequences of H. pylori infection in children. Previously it was evaluated the prevalence of H. pylori in children up to fourteen years of age at a low-income community called Parque Universitário. The present study is a cohort of a group of children eight years after the first study, with the aim of evaluating the dynamics of H. pylori infection and also to check if infected children are more likely to have anemia and ferrritin, folate and vitamin B12 deficiency when compared to non-infected children. The infection was evaluated in 133 individuals through the 13C urea breath test, previously validated for the brazilian population. Blood was sampled from 108 individuals to dose levels of ferritin, vitamin B12 and folate by chemiluminescence using Immulite ® 2000 and hemoglobin. The prevalence of H. pylori infection in the individuals was 53.4% (71/133) in 2000, while the prevalence of H. pylori in the same group in 2008 was 64.7% (86/133). It was found that after eight years, the majority (88.7%) of H. pylori positive individuals remained positive for infection. The rate of acquisition of infection by H. pylori after 8 years of the initial analysis was 17.3% (23/133) and the rate of loss of infection was 6% (8/133). The acquisition rates were higher in children younger than 10 years, reaching 30.2% in children younger than 5 years. The prevalence of infection in children under 5 years increased from 39.6% in 2000 to 62.2% in 2008 (p = 0.020). There was no statistically significant difference between anemia, serum ferritin, vitamin B12 and folate in H. pylori-positive individuals compared to H. pylori-negative. In conclusion, H. pylori infection is acquired early in childhood, with high rates of acquisition in children under 10 years. There was no association between H. pylori infection and anemia, serum vitamin B12 and folate levels among the individuals studied.