Mortality of elderly due to diabetes mellitus in Brazil: 1996 to 2021

• Autor(a) principal: Paiva, Erika Coelho
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Benito, Linconl Agudo Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: REVISA : Revista de Divulgação Científica Sena Aires (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rdcsa.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/106
• topic: Doenças não transmissíveis; Diabetes do tipo 2; Mortalidade; Brasil; Non-communicable diseases; Type 2 Diabetes; Mortality; Brazil

Objective: Analyzing the frequency of death records of elderly individuals due to diabetes mellitus (DM) in Brazil, from 1996 to 2021. Method: Exploratory, comparative, descriptive, and quantitative study. Data were extracted from the Mortality Information System of the Ministry of Health (SIM/MS). Results: A universe of "1,020,672" death records due to DM was identified, with a mean and standard deviation of (39,256.6±12,953). The highest prevalences were 41.9% (n=427,586) in the Southeast region (SE), 19.4% (n=197,995) in the state of São Paulo (SP), 85.1% (n=868,576) of deaths were due to unspecified DM (ICD-10: E14), 36.2% (n=369,855) were aged 70 to 79, 51.3% (n=523,101) were of "white" race/color, 23.2% (n=237,279) had "no" education, 37.9% (n=387,194) were married, and 68.2% (n=696,158) had a hospital death record. Conclusion: An increase in the frequency of death records of elderly individuals due to DM was observed in the analyzed geographical and historical context.