Doença de Chagas como causa básica de óbito na região sudeste do Brasil: presença de causas contributárias

• Autor(a) principal: Wanderley, Dalva Marli Valério
• Data de Publicação: 1994
• Outros Autores: Litvoc, Julio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/rsp/article/view/24012
• topic: Tripanossomose sul-americana^i1^smortalid; Causa da morte; Trypanosomiasis; South American^i2^smortal; Cause of death

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.