Spatial approach to deaths by Alzheimer's Disease in São Paulo State

• Grant number: 11/21844-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2012
• End date: January 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Public Health
• Principal Investigator: Luiz Fernando Costa Nascimento
• Grantee: Milena Cristina da Silva Almeida
• Host Institution: Instituto Básico de Biociências (IBB). Universidade de Taubaté (UNITAU). Taubaté , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Alzheimer´s disease is a neurodegenerative and progressive disease that compromises the brain, provoking memory loss and behavioral changes. It is the main cause of dementia, and its consequences involve not only the ill but also everyone around him or her. The Alzheimer´s disease is more common in the elderly, and its primary cause is the genetic factor. The spatial analysis study enables to investigate relationship between the environment and the incidence of the disease. Identifying possible spatial standards of distribution of mortality from Alzheimer's disease can direct preventive and therapeutic actions for the population, and then offer better life quality. This project is an ecological and exploratory study with data about mortality from Alzheimer´s disease, in the state of São Paulo, obtained from DATASUS relating to the period of 2005 and 2009. This work is expected to find a spatial association between Alzheimer´s disease and the places of occurrence of this. (AU)