06.02.02. Please outline the total deaths and Years of Life Lost (YLL) due to dementia and the source of these estimates | Brazil
06.02.02. Please outline the total deaths and Years of Life Lost (YLL) due to dementia and the source of these estimates | Brazil
08 Apr 2022
According to a study published in 2019 that systematically analysed data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016, there were 80,600 deaths (69,174 to 94,940; 95% confidence interval) due to dementia in Brazil in 2016 (GBD 2016, 2019). We could not find specific data for YLL. However, a subnational analysis of the Global Burden of Disease carried out for Brazil (from 1990 to 2016) described a small and non-significant increase in the age-standardised YLL rate of 2.7% (-1.3% to 7.0%) for Alzheimer’s disease over the observed period (GBD 2016, 2018).
References:
GBD 2016. (2018). Burden of disease in Brazil, 1990-2016: A systematic subnational analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet Neurology, 392. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31221-2
GBD 2016. (2019). Global, regional, and national burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, 1990–2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet Neurology, 18, 88–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30403-4