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Doenças Cardiovasculares/epidemiologia , Métodos Epidemiológicos , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Criança , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , População Rural , População Urbana , VenezuelaAssuntos
Doenças Cardiovasculares/mortalidade , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , VenezuelaAssuntos
Doenças Cardiovasculares/epidemiologia , Registros , Adolescente , Adulto , Fatores Etários , Idoso , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Sistema de Registros , Fatores Sexuais , VenezuelaAssuntos
Doenças Cardiovasculares/epidemiologia , Doença de Chagas/epidemiologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Doença de Chagas/diagnóstico , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Testes de Fixação de Complemento , Eletrocardiografia , Métodos Epidemiológicos , Seguimentos , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Saúde da População Rural , VenezuelaRESUMO
The four-year follow-up study reported herein represents the continuation of a previous cross-sectional study carried out in a rural community (Belen, Venezuela). The earlier study included 1,210 persons out of a total of 1,656 inhabitants, all over five years of age, and demonstrated a high prevalence of Chagas' infection (47.3 per cent) and a high rate of Chagas' disease seropositivity among those with chronic myocardial heart disease (84.8 per cent); heart disease was found in 17.3 per cent of persons studied. It included clinical, electrocardiographic and radiological analyses
The present report describes the results of the four-year follow-up study performed in 812 persons, which permitted to establish the incidence of Chagas' infection (16.3 per cent) and that of chagasic heart disease (2.2 per cent) in four years. The report also included the clinical, electrocardiographic and radiological analyses of cases with previous heart disease as well as new cases. Different evolutive electrocardiographic patterns have been found, including serial electrocardiographic variations ranging from normal to definitely abnormal. The mortality occurred in the sample during the observation period is reported(AU)