01455nas a2200217   4500000000100000008004100001653001200042653001700054653001600071653001400087653001100101653001600112100001400128700002600142700001500168245010400183856005900287490000700346050001500353520086900368       2013                            d10aleprosy10aEpidemiology10aDescriptive10aMortality10aBrazil10aMato Grosso1 aRamos ARS1 aBenevides Ferreira SM1 aIgnottiI E00a[Deaths having leprosy as underlying cause among residents of Mato Grosso State, Brazil, 2000-2007]  uhttp://scielo.iec.pa.gov.br/pdf/ess/v22n2/v22n2a09.pdf0 v22  aRAMOS 20133 aOBJECTIVE: to describe records of deaths from leprosy contained on the Mato Grosso Mortality Information System (SIM) and Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN) from 2000 to 2007. 
METHODS: Cross-sectional epidemiological study analyzing deaths from leprosy registered on the SIM system from 2000 to 2007 and identified on SINAN system in Mato Grosso. 
RESULTS: 88 of the 129 registered leprosy deaths were identified on the SINAN system as leprosy cases. 36 of these had been discharged after being cured. The most frequent primary cause of death was nonspecific leprosy (n = 88, 75.9%). 
CONCLUSION: half the leprosy death records in Mato Grosso include cured cases and these therefore did not die from leprosy. The cured and those who died during polychemotherapy were characterized by older age, low education level or having been lepromatous cases.