Mortality by Heart Failure and Ischemic Heart Disease in Brazil from 1996 to 2011

Background: Circulatory system diseases are the first cause of death in Brazil. Objective: To analyze the evolution of mortality caused by heart failure, by ischemic heart diseases and by ill-defined causes, as well as their possible relations, in Brazil and in the geoeconomic regions of the count...

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Main Authors: Eduardo Nagib Gaui, Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira, Carlos Henrique Klein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) 2014-06-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2014000600005&lng=en&tlng=en