The decline in mortality from circulatory diseases in Brazil Disminución en la mortalidad por enfermedades cardiovasculares en Brasil

• Main Authors: Cintia Curioni, Cynthia Braga Cunha, Renato Peixoto Veras, Charles André
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2009
• Subjects: Enfermedades cardiovasculares; epidemiología; mortalidad; Brasil; Cardiovascular diseases; epidemiology; mortality; Brazil; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Claro
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/ac644c58f1544a3cb80529bbf33416bc

OBJECTIVES: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the world. Although mortality rates have declined gradually in developed countries, the scenario is less clear in developing countries. We describe the trends in cardiovascular mortality in Brazil over 24 years and investigate dif...