Variation in mortality Associated with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the last 20 years in Brazil

• Grant number: 12/02848-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2012
• End date: April 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Gustavo Silveira Graudenz
• Grantee: Gabriel Pereira Gazotto
• Host Institution: Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE). Campus Vergueiro. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) has become an important public health problem in Brazil and worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, COPD will grow more than any other disease, making it the fourth leading cause responsible for loss productive life worldwide in 2020. In Brazil, COPD is currently the sixth most common cause of death, and studies of the late 90's, show a sustained growth of this important disease. This study aims to present and analyze the data update, mortality due to COPD, by raising the Mortality Information System database DATASUS (SIM/DATASUS), considering the international code of diseases relating to the years of COPD 1989 to 2010 in Brazil, taking into consideration the Brazilian regions, the age groups most affected, the difference between sex and place of occurrence of deaths.(AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GRAUDENZ, GUSTAVO SILVEIRA; GAZOTTO, GABRIEL PEREIRA. Tendências de mortalidade por doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica no Brasil. Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira, v. 60, n. 3, p. 255-261, MAY-JUN 2014. (12/02848-4)