title: [Productive years of life lost in Brazil because of cardiovascular mortality].
abstract: Based on Brazilian Government official statistics for 1985, an estimate was made of the number of productive years of life lost due to cardiovascular premature mortality (ages 15 to 59). Data were corrected by the proportion of the population actually engaged in work activities during 1985. Crude results showed a loss of 481,052.0 years of productive life for men and 333,912.5 for women. The average years of productive life lost per person were 12.5 for males and 13.4 for females. The averages for women were higher in all regions. Averages were also higher for both men and women in underdeveloped regions (North, Northeast and Midwest) as compared with the South and Southeast. The two latter regions had the highest proportions of economically active years of life lost (80% and above). Data correction increased the average of years lost from 1.0 to 2.8 per woman and from 0.2 to 0.8 per man. This suggests that, in Brazil, death by cardiovascular diseases occurs earlier in people engaged in work activities than in the population outside the work force. Social costs of premature cardiovascular mortality and the need for a national program on education and control of high blood pressure are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, e Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas, Salvador, Brasil.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lessa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D004467:Economics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: Anos produtivos de vida perdidos no Brasil, por mortalidade cardiovascular.