| Summary: | Objective: To determine the prevalence and specific dengue coefficients of mortality in Brazil in the
elderly population correlating the rates by male and female. Methods: Analytical ecological study with
temporal trend of design. It was used as data sources Sistema de Informação Hospitalar, Sistema de
Informação de Mortalidade and Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. The population
corresponded to the elderly aged between 60 years to 100 attended at Brazilian public health system
whom were diagnosed with dengue between 2008 and 2015. Results: The prevalence rates did not
change in the general population between the years 2008 and 2015. There was a significant increase in
the number of deaths from dengue. In the elderly group, the prevalence increased substantially, and the
specific mortality analysis in this group showed higher values than the mortality of the general
population affected by dengue. Conclusions: It is very important to underline studies on the
involvement of dengue in elderly groups for the development of public politics and the creation of
specific protocols for the diagnosis and treatment in that age group, considering the lack of scientific
evidence to entail proper conduct in handling such patients
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