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. 2016 Sep;107(3):230–238. doi: 10.5935/abc.20160119

Table 2.

Proportional mortality (%) due to heart failure, acute or chronic ischemic heart diseases and ill-defined causes as underlying causes of death in the Brazilian geoeconomic regions stratified by age group in the female sex from 2004 to 2011

Cause Region
Age group Northen Northestern West-Central Southeastern Southern Brazil
HF            
0-39 0.6 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.6
40-49 1.2 1.6 1.6 1.2 1.2 1.3
50-59 1.9 2.3 2.5 1.9 1.8 2.0
60-69 2.8 2.8 3.3 2.6 2.8 2.8
70-79 3.4 3.3 4.4 3.4 4.2 3.6
80-89 3.8 4.0 5.1 4.3 5.8 4.5
90 or + 4.3 4.6 5.8 4.9 7.4 5.2
Total 2.4 2.9 3.3 3.0 3.8 3.1
Acute IHD            
0-39 0.7 1.1 1.0 1.2 1.0 1.1
40-49 4.7 7.1 6.0 6.3 6.3 6.4
50-59 6.8 9.2 7.8 8.2 8.2 8.4
60-69 7.7 10.1 9.1 9.4 9.4 9.5
70-79 7.1 9.2 8.2 9 9.2 9
80-89 6.0 7.5 6.6 7.3 7.6 7.3
90 or + 4.8 5.9 4.9 5.8 6 5.8
Total 4.9 7.2 6.3 7.3 7.5 7.1
Chronic IHD            
0-39 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
40-49 0.2 0.5 1.0 0.8 0.9 0.7
50-59 0.4 0.8 1.4 1.4 1.6 1.2
60-69 0.6 1.0 1.8 1.9 2.2 1.7
70-79 0.8 1.2 1.8 2.1 2.7 1.9
80-89 0.7 1.1 1.8 2.2 3.0 2.0
90 or + 0.7 1.0 1.9 2.4 3.2 2.0
Total 0.5 0.9 1.4 1.7 2.2 1.5
IDC            
0-39 9.8 7.3 3.4 6.1 3.7 6.3
40-49 11.3 8.9 4.3 7.4 4.5 7.3
50-59 11.8 8.8 3.6 7.0 4.4 7.0
60-69 13.4 9.6 3.6 6.8 4.3 7.2
70-79 15.7 11.2 3.7 6.9 4.7 7.7
80-89 20.1 14.5 5.0 7.7 6.1 9.4
90 or + 29.8 21.7 9.5 11.2 11.0 14.8
Total 14.8 11.8 4.3 7.5 5.4 8.4
N            
0-39 49,782 146,364 36,437 184,665 59,689 476,937
40-49 14,073 60,516 17,437 119,553 37,702 249,281
50-59 19,309 92,027 25,253 192,631 62,242 391,462
60-69 25,177 134,654 34,437 269,106 92,995 556,369
70-79 32,284 187,067 43,297 400,302 138,749 801,699
80-89 28,163 197,554 36,886 415,142 139,630 817,375
90ou+ 14,674 101,902 15,540 174,025 53,005 359,146
Total 183,462 920,084 209,287 1,755,424 584,012 3,652,269

ICD-10: International Statistical Classification of Diseasesand Related Health Problems - 10th revision.

ICD-10: codes: from Chapter IX for HF - 150, for acute IHD - 120-124, and for chronic IHD - 125; and from Chapter XVIII for IDC.

HF: heart failure; IHD: acute or chronic ischemic heart diseases; IDC: ill-defined causes.