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Doença de Chagas como causa básica de óbito na região sudeste do Brasil: presença de causas contributárias
| Resumo: | Death certificates of all persons who died in 1987 in the State of S.Paulo, Brazil and which presented Chagas' disease as the principal cause of death, were studied with a view to analysing the existing additional information available as to contributory causes. After a direct reading of the 1,308 death certificates, the contributory causes were identified and registered. They were mentioned in 261 (20%) of the certificates, 185 of them presenting only one, and 75 two of them. The 6 more frequent contributory causes were: "megas", embolism, chronic pulmonary disease, infections (other than Chagas' disease), arterial hypertension and malnutrition. When analysisng the presence of the contributory causes in two groups - persons of less than 50 years old, and those older than 50 a higher proportion of them was observed in the older group and a distinct profile of causes was found for each group. No statistic association was observed between contributory causes and sex or site of residence. |
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| Autores principais: | Wanderley, Dalva Marli Valério |
| Outros Autores: | Litvoc, Julio |
| Assunto: | Tripanossomose sul-americana^i1^smortalid Causa da morte Trypanosomiasis South American^i2^smortal Cause of death |
| Ano: | 1994 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | unknown |
| Instituição associada: | IBICT |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Oasisbr |
| Resumo: | Death certificates of all persons who died in 1987 in the State of S.Paulo, Brazil and which presented Chagas' disease as the principal cause of death, were studied with a view to analysing the existing additional information available as to contributory causes. After a direct reading of the 1,308 death certificates, the contributory causes were identified and registered. They were mentioned in 261 (20%) of the certificates, 185 of them presenting only one, and 75 two of them. The 6 more frequent contributory causes were: "megas", embolism, chronic pulmonary disease, infections (other than Chagas' disease), arterial hypertension and malnutrition. When analysisng the presence of the contributory causes in two groups - persons of less than 50 years old, and those older than 50 a higher proportion of them was observed in the older group and a distinct profile of causes was found for each group. No statistic association was observed between contributory causes and sex or site of residence. |
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