Trends in mortality from stroke in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1979-2015

Soto Venegas, Álvaro; Guillén Grima, Francisco; Morales Illanes, Gladys; Muñoz, Sergio; Aguinaga Ontoso, Inés; Vanegas, Jairo

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Trends in mortality from stroke in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1979-2015

dc.contributor.author	Soto Venegas, Álvaro
dc.contributor.author	Guillén Grima, Francisco
dc.contributor.author	Morales Illanes, Gladys
dc.contributor.author	Muñoz, Sergio
dc.contributor.author	Aguinaga Ontoso, Inés
dc.contributor.author	Vanegas, Jairo
dc.contributor.department	Ciencias de la Salud	es_ES
dc.contributor.department	Osasun Zientziak	eu
dc.date.accessioned	2022-07-21T10:53:21Z
dc.date.available	2022-07-21T10:53:21Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.date.updated	2022-07-18T09:24:59Z
dc.description.abstract	Background: stroke is the second largest single cause of death and disability in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). There have been large overall declines in stroke mortality rates in most LAC countries in recent decades. Objective: to analyze trends in mortality caused by stroke in LAC countries in the period 1979-2015. Methods: we extracted data for age-standardized stroke mortality rates per 100,000 in LAC for the period 1979-2015 from the World Health Organization Mortality Database. Joinpoint regression was used to analyze the trends and compute the annual percent change (APC) in LAC as a whole and by country. Analyses were conducted by gender, region and World Bank income classification. Results: mortality from stroke has decreased in LAC over the study period by an average APC of -1.9%. Most countries showed significant downward trends, with the sharpest decreases in Chile, Colombia and Uruguay. We recorded statistically significant decreases of -1.4% and -2.4% in mortality rates in men and women, respectively, in the whole LAC. Southern and high-income countries showed the steepest decreases. Conclusions: stroke mortality has decreased in LAC, in both sexes, especially in southern and high-income countries. Our results could serve as a reference for the development of primary prevention and acute management of stroke policies focused on countries with higher mortality.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This study was funded by Office of Research at Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile DI21-0108	en
dc.format.extent	13 p.
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dc.identifier.citation	Soto, Á.; Guillén-Grima, F.; Morales, G.; Muñoz, S.; Aguinaga-Ontoso, I.; Vanegas, J. (2022). Trends in mortality from stroke in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1979-2015. Global Heart. 17,1	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.5334/gh.1114
dc.identifier.issn	2211-8160
dc.identifier.uri	https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/43391
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Ubiquity Press	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Global Heart, 2022, 17 (1)	en
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1114
dc.rights	© 2022 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License	en
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dc.subject	Caribbean	en
dc.subject	Joinpoint regression analysis	en
dc.subject	Latin America	en
dc.subject	Mortality	en
dc.subject	Stroke	en
dc.subject	Trends	en
dc.title	Trends in mortality from stroke in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1979-2015	en
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