Mortalidade por doenças cardiovasculares no Brasil e na região metropolitana de São Paulo: atualização 2011

Abstract

Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading causes of death in our population. There was a progressive decrease in mortality due to CVD up to 2005.

Consistent declining trends in stroke mortality in Brazil: mission accomplished?

“…As observed in developed countries, efforts towards diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia control and smoking cessation programs, * The rate of decreasing is relative to the previous year particularly in combination with treatment of hypertension, may have contributed to the decline in stroke mortality 19 . Although using different methodologies, our results are consistent with the majority of published papers in the country 5,6, . The only dissonant note was the report of an increase in age-adjusted mortality due to cerebrovascular accidents (ICD 10, I60-I69) from 2001 to 2006, maybe because crude mortality data were not corrected 20 .…”

“…In Brazil, there is evidence of declining mortality from stroke in São Paulo since the 1970s 4 and all over the country since the 1980s 5 , but the magnitude of the mortality rates and its decline, as well as the differences among the regions of the country need to be better investigated. From 1979 to 1996, among Brazilian adults aged 30 or more years old, despite the high values, the age-adjusted death rate for stroke dropped significantly (p<0.001) from 200 to 164 deaths/100,000 population in men and from 168 to 130 deaths/100,000 population in women 6 . Mortality is a measure of incidence of deaths in the total population at risk and its frequency depends both on the incidence of the disease and its case-fatality ratio, the proportion of death among those with the disease.…”

Estudo comparativo de mortalidade por doenças cardiovasculares em São Caetano do Sul (SP), Brasil, no período de 1980 a 2010

“…Although the population in general is increasing and living longer, different studies report declining mortality due to CVD as the result of changes in lifestyle, improved technology for disease prevention and treatment, and the implementation of a range of public health policies [8][9][10][11][12] . According to Lima Costa et al 1 , between 1996 and 2000, deaths due to cerebrovascular and ischemic heart diseases experienced the sharpest drops.…”

Cuidado Familiar Após Infarto Agudo Do Miocárdio

“…As doenças cardiovasculares, são a principal causa de mortalidade de homens e mulheres acima de 30 anos nos países em desenvolvimento, como o Brasil (1). O Infarto Agudo do Miocárdio (IAM) ocasiona um elevado nú-mero de hospitalizações, sendo necessária a busca pelo serviço adequado e as orientações para identificação dos sintomas objetivando a diminuição das taxas de mortalidade (2).…”