Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Sciences
Year: 2024
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Evolution of mortality from cerebrovascular disease according to population density in Spain
Almudena Moreno and Enrique Regidor
ABSTRACT:
The objective to this study is to estimate the trend in mortality from cerebrovascular disease according to the population size density of the province of residence in Spain between the years 2001 and 2019. We selected all deaths assigned to the International Classification of Diseases tenth revision (ICD-10) for total cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69). The population and number of deaths according to age, sex and population density of the province of residence have been obtained from the National Statistics Institute. The provinces have been grouped into five categories based on their population density: less than 23.7 inhabitants per km2 (density 1), between 23.7 and 49.6 inhabitants per km2 (density 2), between 49.7 and 102.2 inhabitants per km2 (density 3), between 102.3 and 220.3 inhabitants per km2 (density 4) and more than 220.3 inhabitants per km2 (density 5). We calculated the mortality rate from 2001 to 2019 for each density group and in both sexes. The trend in cerebrovascular mortality during this period was calculated using the mean annual percentage change (APC) Between 2001 and 2019, the APC in the cerebrovascular mortality rate in the provinces of density 1,2,3,4 and 5 was respectively -4.0%, -4.9%, -4.9%, -4.9% and -5.1% in men and -4.2, 5.2%, -5.3%, -5.3% and -5.3% in women.
The provinces with the lowest population density showed the smallest reduction in cerebrovascular mortality in both sexes.
keywords: cerebrovascular; deaths; density; Spain; trend