IJCS | Volume 31, Nº2, March / April 2018

129 –70 –60 –50 –40 –30 –20 –10 0 10 Ilha Grande Bay Coastal Lowlands Southern-Central Metropolitan Belt Mid-Paraíba Niterói Northernthwestern Northern Rio de Janeiro Mountain Regress_DCS Regress_CBVD Regress_IHD Angra dos Reis (Ilha Grande Bay) Mangaratiba (Ilha Grande Bay) Parati (Ilha Grande Bay) São Pedro da Aldeia (Coastal Lowlands) Araruama (Coastal Lowlands) Saquarema (Coastal Lowlands) Casimiro de Abreu (Coastal Lowlands) Cabo Frio (Coastal Lowlands) Três Rios (Southern-Central) Sapucaia (Southern-Central) Paraiba do Sul (Southern-Central) Vassouras (Southern-Central) Duque de Caxias (Metropolitan Belt) Maricá (Metropolitan Belt) Itaguaí (Metropolitan Belt) Itaboraí (Metropolitan Belt) Rio BoNiteróio (Metropolitan Belt) Magé (Metropolitan Belt) Nova Iguaçu (Metropolitan Belt) São Gonçalo (Metropolitan Belt) Nilópolis (Metropolitan Belt) São João de Meriti (Metropolitan Belt) Resende (Mid-Paraíba) Barra Mansa (Mid-Paraíba) Pirai (Mid-Paraíba) Valença (Mid-Paraíba) Rio Claro (Mid-Paraíba) Barra do Piraí (Mid-Paraíba) Rio das Flores (Mid-Paraíba) Niteróieroi (Niterói) Natividade (Northernthwestern) Porciuncula (Northernthwestern) Itaperuna (Northernthwestern) Santo Ant de Padua (Northernthwestern) Miracema (Northernthwestern) Itaocara (Northernthwestern) Cambuci (Northernthwestern) Macaé (Northern) São João da Barra (Northern) São Fidelis (Northern) Campos (Northern) Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro) Cantagalo (Mountain) Santa Maria Madalena (Mountain) Sumidouro (Mountain) Nova Friburgo (Mountain) Teresopolis (Mountain) Cachoeiras (Mountain) São Sebastião do Alto (Mountain) Petrópolis (Mountain) Duas Barras (Mountain) Bom Jardim (Mountain) Trajano de Morais (Mountain) Carmo (Mountain) Cordeiro (Mountain) Figure 2 – Variations (linear regression model) in the deaths from diseases of the circulatory system (DCS), cerebrovascular diseases (CBVD) and ischemic heart diseases (IHD) per 100,000 inhabitants at each 100-dollar increment in the GDP per capita in the aggregates of the Rio de Janeiro State municipalities from 1979 to 2010. Soares et al. Cardiovascular Mortality X Gross Domestic Product Int J Cardiovasc Sci. 2018;31(2)123-132 Original Article because it was emancipated only in 1955 27 ); Angra dos Reis, related to the naval industry; Resende, related to the automotive industry; andmunicipalities related to the oil industry, such as Duque de Caxias, Macaé, Campos dos Goytacazes, Casimiro de Abreu, Cabo Frio and São João da Barra. 28 However, the big GDPpc increase of those municipalities occurred only in the last years of the study, probably not correlating with the reduction in deaths fromDCS, whose influence might be felt in future years. We demonstrated that the mean coefficient of correlation between GDPpc elevation since 1950 and mortality from DCS in adults since 1979, with a time lag of a little more than 20 years, of all Rio de Janeiro State municipalities was negative and high (-0.84).