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SUBMITTER: Castro-Porras LV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8413460 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Castro-Porras Lilia V LV Rojas-Martínez Rosalba R Aguilar-Salinas Carlos A CA Bello-Chavolla Omar Yaxmehen OY Becerril-Gutierrez Carlos C Escamilla-Nuñez Consuelo C
Scientific reports 20210902 1
Arterial hypertension is a major global health problem. It is the main risk factor for preventable death and the leading cause of premature death in the world. This study aims to describe the changes in hypertension-related mortality in Mexico between 1998 and 2018. Using death certificates and national population public data sets, a total of 335,863 deaths due to hypertension were found in Mexico, disaggregated by sex and age, during the time period covered in this study. An age-period-cohort a ...[more]