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Can We Stop The Stroke Epidemic In Pakistan?, Ismail A. Khatri, Mohammad Wasay Apr 2011

Can We Stop The Stroke Epidemic In Pakistan?, Ismail A. Khatri, Mohammad Wasay

Department of Medicine

No abstract provided.


Cardiovascular And Cancer Mortality In Brazil, Paulo A. Lotufo May 2010

Cardiovascular And Cancer Mortality In Brazil, Paulo A. Lotufo

Paulo A Lotufo

Cancer are not surpassing Cardiovascular Diseases. Here you have an evaluation of mortality in Brazil. The debate was ignited by paper from IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) that forecasts cancer deaths surpassing heart diseases rates during de 2020’s. There is no dispute about the fact that - at least in the US and other countries - the decline of mortality deaths for heart diseases presenting a faster pace compared to cancer death rates. It is an epidemiological evidence that must be analyzed and some headline fueling hype as “heart diseases as an old agenda of public health and …


Higher Frequency Of Stroke Deaths On Monday And Saturday, Paulo A. Lotufo Feb 2010

Higher Frequency Of Stroke Deaths On Monday And Saturday, Paulo A. Lotufo

Paulo A Lotufo

No abstract provided.


Social Inequalities And The Decline Of Stroke Mortality In The City Of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Paulo A. Lotufo Feb 2010

Social Inequalities And The Decline Of Stroke Mortality In The City Of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Paulo A. Lotufo

Paulo A Lotufo

No abstract provided.


Race, Gender And Stroke Subtypes Mortality In Sao Paulo, Brazil., Paulo A. Lotufo Jan 2007

Race, Gender And Stroke Subtypes Mortality In Sao Paulo, Brazil., Paulo A. Lotufo

Paulo A Lotufo

Stroke mortality rates have a discrepant distribution according to socioeconomic variables as social exclusion in Brazil. Recently, data from race has been available from the official health statistics considering five categories: White, Mixed, Black, Asian and Native. We addressed in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, an analysis of cerebrovascular mortality according to race (excluding Asian and Native due to small number of events) and gender during 1999-2001 for people aged 30 to 79 years-old. For all cerebrovascular diseases, age-adjusted mortality rates (x 100,000) for men were higher for Black (150.2), intermediate for Mixed (124.2) and lower for White (104.5) …


Stroke In Brazil: A Neglected Disease, Paulo A. Lotufo Jan 2005

Stroke In Brazil: A Neglected Disease, Paulo A. Lotufo

Paulo A Lotufo

The turning point in the transition from infectious diseases to non-transmittable diseases in Brazil occurred in the 1960s, taking the country as a whole. However, considering the main cities, such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, cerebrovascular disease mortality rates have surpassed the “old cardiovascular diseases” like rheumatic heart disease and syphilitic aortic disease since the end of World War II. Until the end of the 1980s, the burden of stroke mortality observed in the main Brazilian cities was higher than in the United States, Canada and western European countries, and similar to what is observed in Eastern Europe …