“…Regarding the sociodemographic characteristics such as age and gender, it was found that the average age was of 63 and the majority of the people researched consisted of males (66.2%), which are similar to other studies (Aliti, Linhares, Linch, Ruschel, & Rabelo, 2011;Coelho, Queijo, Andolhe, Gonçalves, & Padilha, 2011;Dessotte, Dantas, Schmidt, & Rossi, 2011;Gil, Dessotte, Schmidt, Rossi, & Dantas, 2012;Mendes, Reis, Menezes, Santos, & Mussi, 2014). However, recent research with cardiac patients has demonstrated the predominance of females, which can be explained by cardiovascular mortality being higher and earlier among men (Armendaris & Monteiro, 2012;Martins et al, 2011).…”