Trends in Productive Years of Life Lost to Premature Mortality Due to Coronary Heart Disease
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the number of productive years of life lost to premature death due to coronary heart disease in Brazil and to report their trends over a 20-year period. METHODS: The Brazilian Ministry of Health raw database on death due to coronary heart disease from 1979-1998 was used. The p...
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Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC)
2002-12-01
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| Series: | Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2002001500007 |