Trends in the risk of mortality due to cardiovascular diseases in five Brazilian geographic regions from 1979 to 1996

OBJECTIVE - To analyze the trends in risk of death due to cardiovascular diseases in the northern, northeastern, southern, southeastern, and central western Brazilian geographic regions from 1979 to 1996. METHODS - Data on mortality due to cardiovascular, cardiac ischemic, and cerebrovascular diseas...

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Main Authors: Maria de Fátima Marinho de Souza, Ari Timerman, Carlos Vicente Serrano Jr, Raul D. Santos, Antonio de Pádua Mansur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) 2001-12-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2001001200007