Although the cardiovascular disease mortality rates in Brazil still reach high numbers, they have decreased significantly in recent years. In the early 1990s, the country presented approximately 350 deaths per 100 000 inhabitants per year, and the most recently published rates were reduced to just over 200 deaths per 100 000 inhabitants. Mortality rates due to coronary artery disease are higher in men: between 1990 and 2017, the annual mortality rate due to coronary artery disease was approximately 100 deaths […]