The incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular disease are increasing worldwide. – This is partly due to population aging and the accumulation of risk factors associated with these diseases. In Brazil, the life expectancy of the population in 2019 was estimated at 76.6 years in a population of 211,652,819 people, assessed by IBGE. In the same year, approximately 12,168,390 hospitalizations were registered in the public healthcare system (in Brazil, SUS) — Ministry of Health — with approximately 1,200,000 due to cardiovascular […]