Excess mortality associated with COVID-19 in Brazil: 2020-2021.

Luciana Bertoldi Nucci Carla Cristina EnesF R FerrazI V da SilvaA E M RinaldiW L Conde

Published in: Journal of public health (Oxford, England) (2021)

The excess mortality in Brazil in these 16 months was 1.20 times greater than the previous year. The increase in not elsewhere classified causes and causes of death associated to COVID-19 indicate caution about the negative balance for some causes. Furthermore, the inequalities of mortality reporting systems in low- and middle-income countries in relation to underestimation of mortality still need to be addressed.

Keyphrases

cardiovascular events
coronavirus disease
sars cov
risk factors
cardiovascular disease
emergency department
type diabetes
coronary artery disease
adverse drug
drug induced