2019, Number 1
Behaviour of the deaths by mechanical asphyxias, Mayabeque 2013- 2017
Language: Spanish
References: 18
Page: 63-74
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: violent deaths, and among them mechanical asphyxias, represent a high percent of dead people all over the world so it is necessary to give the updated information to the scientific community in relation to their behavior in order to take decisions about them.Objective: to characterize el epidemiologic behavior of deaths by mechanical asphyxias in Mayabeque.
Methods: a descriptive, transversal study was carried out in dead patients for mechanical asphyxias in Mayabeque province from 2013 to 2017. The universe was formed by 175 dead patients because of mechanical asphyxias and the information was obtained from the Forensic Medicine Department, as well as from the forensic physicians records. Statistical techniques related to absolute frequencies and percentages were used, as well as the comparison of proportions calculating the standard deviation considering a level of meaning of P<0.05.
Results: male sex prevailed with a 93.71 % and he 60 and older age group in a 36.57 %. According to the production mechanism, the most frequent type of death was hanging of suicide etiology (69.71 %), where alcohol prevailed as associated risk factor in 48.00 %.
Conclusions: deaths because of mechanical asphyxias identified with a high frequency in the male sex, age of 60 years old and more, hanging of suicide etiology and alcohol as associated risk factor existing a significant statistical relation between the production mechanism for mechanical asphyxias and their etiologies.
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