Hypertension is the underlying cause of death assessed at the autopsy of individuals.
Juliana Chaves CoelhoRenata Eloah de Lucena Ferretti-RebustiniClaudia Kimie SuemotoRenata Elaine Paraizo LeiteJulia Maria D'Andréa GreveAngela Maria Geraldo PierinPublished in: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P (2019)
The prevalence of hypertension was high, and it was the second most common underlying cause of death. The gold standard for the definition of cause of death, the autopsy, shows important results, which confirmed the relevance of hypertension as a public health problem.
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