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- Title
Inequalities in esophageal cancer mortality in Brazil: Temporal trends and projections.
- Authors
Santos, Juliano dos; Meira, Karina Cardoso; Simões, Taynãna César; Guimarães, Raphael Mendonça; Telles, Mauricio Wiering Pinto; Borges, Laiane Felix; Assis, Auzenda Conceição Parreira de; Silva, Maria das Vitorias; Barbosa, Isabelle Ribeiro; Giusti, Angela Carolina Brandão de Souza; Santos, Camila Alves dos; de Souza, Dyego Leandro Bezerra
- Abstract
The main objective of the study was to analyze the effect of age, period and birth cohort on esophageal cancer mortality in Brazil and its geographic regions, per sex. An ecological study is presented herein, which evaluated the deaths by esophageal cancer and the distribution, per geographic region. Poisson Regression was utilized to calculate the effects of age, period and birth cohort, and projections were made with the statistical software R, using the age-period-cohort model. Projection of data covered the period 2015–2029. Regarding the geographic regions of Brazil, a decrease was verified, throughout time, for the mortality rates of the South and Southeast regions, for men and women. For the North, Northeast and Midwest regions, an increase was evidenced in mortality rates, mainly for men, after the 2000's. Regarding the projections, a progressive increase of mortality rates was verified for the Northeast and North regions. Divergences evidenced for observed and projected esophageal cancer mortality rates revealed inequalities among the geographic regions of Brazil.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ESOPHAGEAL cancer; MORTALITY risk factors; PUBLIC health; DISEASE progression; POPULATION health
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2018, Vol 13, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0193135