ABSTRACT
We analyzed all death certificates issued 1991 to investigate the principal diseases cuasing death among chilean women. We calculated direct relative risks and their confidence intervals, highlighting those diseases causing a significantly higher number of deaths among women. The main causes of death, shared by men and women, were acute myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular diseases and bronchopneumonia. The diseases that caused more deaths among women were fractures of head of femur, gallbladder cancer, mitral valve disease, kidney infections and cholelithiasis
Subject(s)
Humans , Female , Infant, Newborn , Infant , Child, Preschool , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , /statistics & numerical data , Cause of Death/trends , Respiratory Tract Diseases/mortality , Women , Wounds and Injuries/mortality , Cardiovascular Diseases/mortality , Gastrointestinal Diseases/mortality , Neoplasms/mortality , Age DistributionABSTRACT
Se determinan las tasas de mortalidad de la Enfermedad Cerebrovascular en Chile durante 1985, de acuerdo a la Clasificación Internacional de Enfermedades. Se proporcionan las cifras totales así como según sexo, grupo de edad y causa específica. Del mismo modo se determina la tasa de egreso de esta misma patología, de los Hospitales del Sistema de Salud de Chile, durante 1983