Alcohol, Smoking and Chewing Tobacco-Risk factors for Malaria and Dengue Transmission?–A Case Control Study
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Sridhar A
Resident, Internal Medicine, Dept of Neurology, Guntur Medical College, Guntur-522002
iamimenotu@gmail.com
- Trivikrama Rao M Senior Resident, Internal Medicine, Dept of Internal Medicine, Guntur Medical College, Guntur-522002
Abstract
Mosquitoes transmit many life-threatening infections to humans. They are attracted to human beings by specific chemical emissions from our body including carbon dioxide, lactic acid and oct-3-enol. Some of these chemicals are present in tobacco and alcohol implying that chronic alcoholics and tobacco smokers may stand at a higher risk for being infected with mosquito borne diseases like malaria and dengue. The study was a hospital based, case control study in the Government general hospital, Guntur, India, over a period of five months. We compared the proportion of alcohol and tobacco abusers in mosquito borne disease patients [n=77] with that of controls [n=82]. The mean pack years of tobacco smoking in cases was lower [3.7±2.8] than in controls was [6.5±2.3] (p= 0.04).The percentage of tobacco users [chewing and/or smoking] was not higher in patients afflicted with mosquito borne diseases [malaria and dengue put together] than in controls. The proportion of alcohol consumers also was not different in cases and controls.
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