Mortality Due to Heart Failure and Socioeconomic Development in Brazil between 1980 and 2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies on mortality from heart failure (HF) in Brazil and in the country's Geographic Regions (GRs) are scarce.

Objective

To analyze the temporal progression of HF mortality rates by sex and age group in Brazil and its GRs and Federative Units (FUs) from 1980 to 2018, and the associations between mortality rates at each FU and the Municipal Human Development Index (MHDI).

Methods

Time series analysis of deaths due to HF categorized by sex and age groups in Brazil and Brazilian GRs and FUs from 1980 to 2018. Death and population data were obtained from the DATASUS for estimation of crude and standardized mortality rates per 100,000 inhabitants (direct method, Brazilian population in the year 2000). We calculated the 3-year moving averages of the standardize

SUBMITTER: Santos SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8682101 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature