Abstracts tagged "Multiple cause analysis"

Abstract Number: 1048 • ACR Convergence 2021
Estimating the Weight of Rheumatologic Diseases in Mortality in Spain: Basic Cause of Death vs Multiple Cause Analysis
ana Perez¹, Fernando Albarran², Cristina Bohorquez², Atusa Movasat², Lucia Ruiz², Paula Pretel², elena Rabadan², Valentina Emperiale², Adrian abbasi³, julio suarez³, lorena montano³, emilio rico³, alfredo prieto⁴, Inmaculada Leon⁵, melchor Alvarez de Mon³ and beatriz perez⁶, ¹Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias. Rheumatology. Medicine Faculty. Alcala University Department., Madrid, Spain, ²Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Rheumatology Department, Alcala de Henares, ³Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Madrid, Spain, ⁴Faculty of Medicine. Alcala University, Alcala de Henares, Spain, ⁵Communicable Diseases. Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, ⁶Department of Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases.National Center of Epidemiology/CIBERESP. Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: Classical statistics provide information on mortality rates for basic causes of death. Although many inflammatory rheumatic diseases decrease life expectancy, they are generally not…