Significance of Medical Check in Predicting Ischemic Heart Diseases and Cerebrovascular Diseases

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the physical inactivity-related inpatient costs of chronic non-communicable diseases. METHODS This study used data from 2013, from Brazilian Unified Health System, regarding inpatient numbers and costs due to malignant colon and breast neoplasms, cerebrovascular diseases, ischemic heart diseases, hypertension, diabetes, and osteoporosis. In order to calculate the share physical inactivity represents in that, the physical inactivity-related risks, which apply to each disease, were considered, and physical inactivity prevalence during leisure activities was obtained from Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílio (Brazil's National Household Sample Survey). The analysis was stratified by genders and residing country regions of subjects who were 40 years or older. The physical inactivity-related hospitalization cost regarding each cause was multiplied by the respective share it regarded to. RESULTS In 2013, 974,641 patients were admitted due to seven different causes in Brazil, which represented a high cost. South region was found to have the highest patient admission rate in most studied causes. The highest prevalences for physical inactivity were observed in North and Northeast regions. The highest inactivity-related share in men was found for osteoporosis in all regions (≈ 35.0%), whereas diabetes was found to have a higher share regarding inactivity in women (33.0% to 37.0% variation in the regions). Ischemic heart diseases accounted for the highest total costs that could be linked to physical inactivity in all regions and for both genders, being followed by cerebrovascular diseases. Approximately 15.0% of inpatient costs from Brazilian Unified Health System were connected to physical inactivity. CONCLUSIONS Physical inactivity significantly impacts the number of patient admissions due to the evaluated causes and through their resulting costs, with different genders and country regions representing different shares.

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Cardiovascular diseases mortality in the population of Belgrade aged 30-69 years for 1990-2002 period

Vojnosanitetski pregled ◽

10.2298/vsp0505343s ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 62 (5) ◽

pp. 343-348 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sandra Sipetic ◽

Hristina Vlajinac ◽

Vesna Stefanovic ◽

Dejana Stanisavljevic

Keyword(s):

Cardiovascular Disease ◽

Heart Disease ◽

Heart Diseases ◽

Mortality Rates ◽

Cerebrovascular Diseases ◽

Ischemic Heart ◽

Second Person ◽

Ischemic Heart Diseases ◽

Disease Mortality ◽

Specific Mortality

During the period between 1990 and 2002 in Belgrade population, almost every second person aged 30-69 years, died of some cardiovascular disease (CVD). Men, as compared to women, had higher standardized mortality rates from CVD (1.7 times), ischemic heart diseases (2.5 times), other heart diseases (1.6 times), and cerebrovascular diseases (1.3 times). During that period, the mortality from CVD increased by 18.6% in men, and by 10.0% in women. The increase in cerebrovascular disease mortality was 32.6% for men and 17.2% for women. Mortality from ischemic heart disease decreased twice as much in men (17.0%) than in woman (8.5%). In both sexes, the average age-specific mortality rates from CVD creased with the age. In women, the average age-specific mortality rates were 5 years behind those in men. In both sexes aged 30-34 years, the average mortality rate from CVD increased by 22.2% in men and by 14.1% in women, respectively.

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Declínio da mortalidade por doenças cardiovasculares no Município de São Paulo, Brasil, no período 1970 a 1983

Revista de Saúde Pública ◽

10.1590/s0034-89101986000600007 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 20 (6) ◽

pp. 454-464 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Cecília Amaro de Lolio ◽

José Maria Pacheco de Souza ◽

Ruy Laurenti

Keyword(s):

Cardiovascular Diseases ◽

Heart Diseases ◽

Cerebrovascular Diseases ◽

Significant Decline ◽

Ischemic Heart ◽

Industrialized Countries ◽

Death Rates ◽

Ischemic Heart Diseases ◽

The City ◽

Very High

Mortality from all causes as well as from the great groups of cardiovascular diseases for the residents of the city of S.Paulo, Brazil, of the ages-group 40-69, for the years 1970 to 1983, has been analysed by means of the specific death rates. During this period a statistically significant decline was observed (28% on the average for ischemic heart diseases and 16% for cerebrovascular diseases). The death rates for the group 40-69 years old for both sexes were age-standardized and compared with those of 27 industrialized countries. The S.Paulo standardized death rates ranked almost always very high in the comparisons.

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Ischemic Heart Disease in Death Discordant Twins - A Study on 205 Male and Female Pairs with Special Reference to Hereditary Factors

Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae ◽

10.1017/s0001566000014240 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 271-275 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ulf de Faire

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Heart Diseases ◽

Genetic Influence ◽

Ischemic Heart ◽

Male And Female ◽

Ischemic Heart Diseases ◽

Twin Registry ◽

Hereditary Factors ◽

Discordant Twins ◽

Swedish Twin Registry

From January 1971 to March 1973 all twin pairs in the Swedish Twin Registry below the age of 70, who became death-discordant, were continuously recorded. A total of 205 (78%) of the surviving cotwins were examined with respect to different manifestations of ischemic heart diseases (IHD) and several “environmental” and “biometric” risk factors. Among the death-discordant pairs, the cause of death was IHD in 57 pairs and other than IHD in 148 pairs. Analyses revealed that the prevalence rate of myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, pathologic Q-wave, and ST depressions in connection with exercise, were significantly higher among the surviving cotwins whose partners had died from IHD than those whose partners had died from other causes. The same trends were seen for most of the risk factors measured both singly and in combination, although not very pronounced. The results indicate a substantial genetic influence in the development of IHD. The genetic influence is possibly transmitted not only through some of the risk factors measured, but also through other factors, still unknown.

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