OBJECTIVE To describe time trends of mortality due to cardiorespiratory diseases in elderly people. METHODS Epidemiological descriptive study with an ecological time series approach conducted in the state of Mato Grosso, Central-West Brazil, between 1986 and 2006. Data were obtained from the Brazilian Ministry of Health Mortality Database. Linear regression models were adjusted to analyze tre...

INTRODUCTION Hypertension is a health problem that is of national importance. It is a major risk factor for the occurrence of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and renal diseases that are leading or among the leading causes of mortality and morbidity as in ours, as in the most developed and less developed countries. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to analyze the relat...

BACKGROUND Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in adults decreases with age and is influenced by lifestyle. Low CRF is associated with risk of diseases and the ability of older persons to function independently. We defined the longitudinal rate of CRF decline with aging and the association of aging and lifestyle with CRF. METHODS We studied a cohort of 3429 women and 16 889 men, aged 20 to 96 yea...

III Einstein International Symposium on Intensive Care and the XXX Mechanical Ventilation. Aug 16-18, 2023. Category: Cardiology Introduction: Occurrences of cardiorespiratory arrest outside hospital are serious represent a major public health problem. According to Brazilian Society Cardiology, cardiovascular diseases most responsible for deaths in Brazil, totaling from January June 2023 approx...

BACKGROUND Early retiring is a major social problem in many western countries. AIM To investigate whether good cardiorespiratory fitness prevents disability pensioning in Finnish middle-aged men. METHODS Subjects were a random population based sample of 1307 men who were 42-60 years old at baseline, had not retired before baseline or died during follow up, and had undergone a cycle ergomete...