title: Years of productive life lost to premature mortality from cardiovascular diseases.
abstract: Cardiovascular diseases exact a major toll in both developed and developing countries in terms of death, ill health, and premature incapacitation. This presentation concerns itself with the economic cost--expressed in terms of years of economically active life lost to premature mortality--imposed by cardiovascular diseases in relatively developed and undeveloped regions of Brazil.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Brasil.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lessa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000191:economics* / Q000401:mortality*; D004526:Efficiency; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors; D026712:Value of Life