Abstract
Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide, including among physicians. Professional peculiarities increase cardiovascular risk in this population, making it relevant to analyze mortality in the medical population (MPop) and non-medical population (NMPop). Objectives: To compare the CVD mortality coefficient (MC) in between MPop and NMPop in Brazil by analyzing the epidemiological profile and the main causes of deaths from CVD. Methods: Time-series study with data obtained from the Mortality Information System of the Federal [...]
Highlights
The morbidity and mortality statistics of a population are of great relevance in helping to understand its demographic profile
Due to a lack of data on medical mortality from Cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Brazil, the present study aimed to evaluate this issue, in addition to describing the epidemiological profile, identifying the main causes of mortality, and estimating the CVD mortality coefficient in the Brazilian medical population (MPop) and non-medical population (NMPop). This is an epidemiological, observational, time-series study with an analytical approach, using secondary data obtained from the Mortality Information System (SIM, Sistema de Informação de Mortalidade) of the CFM and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística).[12,13]
Data were collected from Death Certificates (DCs) referring to CVD, of physicians living in Brazil and of the general population between 2014 and 2018
Summary
The morbidity and mortality statistics of a population are of great relevance in helping to understand its demographic profile. Physicians’ health status, like of the general population, can be estimated by analyzing mortality data. This has received considerable attention in the last 50 years; for example, the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM, Conselho Federal de Medicina) has conducted studies on physicians’ working conditions interfere with their life and health.[1,4]. Professional peculiarities increase cardiovascular risk in this population, making it relevant to analyze mortality in the medical population (MPop) and non-medical population (NMPop). Objective: To compare the CVD mortality coefficient (MC) in between MPop and NMPop in Brazil by analyzing the epidemiological profile and the main causes of deaths from CVD.
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