A study of various factors associated with recurrent tonsillitis at tertiary health care center
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of ENT - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: The tonsils serve immune acquisition and immune defense by antigen presentation, which is why they contain T-lymphocytes, macrophages and germinal centers of B-lymphocytes Aims and Objectives: To study Various factors associated with recurrent tonsillitis at tertiary health care center. Methodology: After approval from institutional ethical committee a cross-sectional study was carried out at the department of Otolaryngology in the patients who were diagnosed as Chronic tonsillitis at tertiary health care center during one-year period i.e. January 2016 to January 2017. All the patients were examined in details and information like age, sex, Associated factors like H/o Overcrowding, H/o Smoking, H/o Obesity (BMI > 30), H/o Diabetes, H/o immunocompromised diseases was recorded from the patients. The statistical analysis done Pearson-co efficient correlation done by SPSS 19 version software. Result: The majority of the patients were in the age group of i.e. <10 were 26.79%, followed by 10-20-23.21, 20-30 were 19.64%, 30-40 -16.07%, 40-50-8.93%, >50 -5.36%. The majority of the patients were young and middle aged this correlation was statistically significant (Pearson r = -0.99, 95% confidence interval = -1.0 to -0.88, P value (two-tailed)-0.0003***). The majority of the patients were Male i.e. 62.50 % and Female were 37.50%. The majority of the patients were associated with the risk factors like Young age i.e. 50.00% followed by H/o Overcrowding -39.29%, H/o Smoking -26.79%, H/o Obesity (BMI > 30) -21.43%, H/o Diabetes -16.07%, H/o immunocompromised disease -8.93%. Conclusion: It can be concluded from our study that the chronic tonsillitis was significantly associated with the young and middle aged and other associated factors were H/o Overcrowding, H/o Smoking H/o Obesity (BMI > 30), H/o Diabetes, H/o immunocompromised disease etc.
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Milind Samangadkar, Chetan Ghorpade
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