Cardiovascular diseases in Brazil: premature mortality, risk factors and priorities for action. Comments on the preliminary results from the Brazilian National Health Survey (PNS), 2013

Lotufo, Paulo A.

doi:10.1590/1516-3180.2015.13320018

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“…When analyzing the premature mortality coefficients for cardiovascular diseases, a higher value was obtained for males, and the highest coefficient found was in 2012. Studies show values of premature mortality coefficient for similar cardiovascular diseases, that is, higher in men than in women (13)(14)(15) .…”

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Assessment of premature mortality for noncommunicable diseases

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Objectives: to analyze premature mortality and Potential Years of Life Lost by noncommunicable diseases in a city in the countryside of São Paulo from 2010 to 2014. Methods: ecological study of temporal tendency, using secondary source. For analysis, the premature mortality coefficient and the Potential Years of Life Lost indicator were used. Results: males had the highest premature mortality rate due to cardiovascular disease, with 213.04 deaths per 100 thousand inhabitants, followed by neoplasms, with 188.44. In women, there was an inversion with 134.22 deaths from cancer and 110.71 deaths from cardiovascular disease. Regarding Potential Years of Life Lost, males had an average of 12.19 years lost by death and females of 13.45 years lost. Conclusions: the results reinforce the need to increase public health prevention and promotion policies to reduce premature deaths, especially among men.

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“…The road traffic death rate was highest in Brazil (24 per 100,000) followed by Colombia (17), Mexico (17) and Argentina (14). However, the proportion of pedestrian deaths was greater in Colombia (62%) followed by Mexico (44%), Brazil (35%) and Argentina (28%).…”

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Knowing for whom the bell tolls: acting locally and thinking globally. Brazil, Latin America and the Global Burden of Diseases, 2015

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Sao Paulo Med. J.

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The world can be divided geopolitically in several ways, but there is one grouping that is applied by most agencies: the category of Latin American and Caribbean countries. It represents 50 independent countries and a few colonies with 640 million inhabitants. However, two-thirds of this population and three-quarters of the gross product is concentrated in four countries: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina. We will discuss the differences in the GBD indexes among these four countries ( Table 1). MORTALITYThe ranking of the five most important causes of YLLs shows how important the burden of coronary heart disease and stroke is, both worldwide and in these four countries, for both sexes.The coronary heart disease (CHD) values were similar among the four countries, but the risk of death due to stroke was significantly higher in Brazil for men and women than in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico.Two particular causes in Latin American and the Caribbean countries are violence and road traffic, which are ranked within the top five causes of deaths, in contrast to the global data.The road traffic death rate was highest in Brazil (24 per 100,000) followed by Colombia (17), Mexico (17) and Argentina (14). However, the proportion of pedestrian deaths was greater in Colombia (62%) followed by Mexico (44%), Brazil (35%) and Argentina (28%). Violence is a characteristic of Latin American and Caribbean countries: the age-adjusted homicide rates I MD, DrPH. Full Professor,

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“…8 The development of atherosclerosis is directly related to aging and the presence of traditional cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and smoking and begins years before clinical events developing in a stage called subclinical atherosclerosis. 8 The development of atherosclerosis is directly related to aging and the presence of traditional cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and smoking and begins years before clinical events developing in a stage called subclinical atherosclerosis.…”

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“…Data from the city of São Paulo from 1996 to 2011 shown death rates for CVD, including CHD, inversely associated to family income and this social gap also seems to be more evident in males. 8 The development of atherosclerosis is directly related to aging and the presence of traditional cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and smoking and begins years before clinical events developing in a stage called subclinical atherosclerosis. 9,10 The underlying pathophysiology of CHD is the chronic and progressive atherosclerotic process, which corroborates for a systemic inflammation and affects all wall arteries and, it can be inferred by carotid intima thickness (CIMT).…”

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