Association between life conditions and vulnerability with mortality from cardiovascular diseases in elderly men of Northeast Brazil

The study aimed at identifying explanatory factors of the mortality rate of elderly men due to cardiovascular diseases in the 187 micro regions of Northeast Brazil, in 2000, based on indicators of life conditions and vulnerability of that population, using the structural equations modeling. The foll...

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Main Authors: Jozemar Pereira dos Santos, Neir Antunes Paes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva 2014-06-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-790X2014000200407&lng=en&tlng=en