Mortalidade cardiovascular e acidentes ambientais em Santos

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of mortality in Brazil and in the world. From the end of the last century to the present, there is a decline in mortality rates in Brazil, with a decline mainly in cerebrovascular diseases. This decline is probably directly related to the control of risk factors, such as hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia and sedentary lifestyle. Air pollution presents itself as an important risk factor for this kind of morbidity and its control makes it totally avoidable. Environmental disasters causing increased mortality have helped to establish causal nexus. Recently, in the years of 2015 and 2016, Santos lowland had two consecutive and important environmental accidents. To research the mortality caused by cardiovascular diseases in the city of Santos, descriptive analyses by Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis test was used. Compared data were analyzed with a 10% significance level. Note that the elderly and the population aged 50 to 59 years show higher mortality caused by environmental accidents, coinciding with data in the literature, which show greater susceptibility of the elderly and greater involvement in the age group of 50 and 59 years, which of tem represent preventable deaths. Nowadays, to face natural disaster we balance Laws and restrictions that are still far from being applied.