Introduction:

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disease that currently represents the fourth cause of death in the world and in the Mexican population is a disease that has a high mortality rate. According to the PLATINO report and the GOLD criteria, the prevalence is 7.8% in people over 40 years of age. Patients with COPD die from the disease itself, in our environment between 50-80% die mainly from exacerbation of the disease, in 8.5-27% due to lung cancer or other related causes.

Material and methods:

This is an analytical observational epidemiological study, with a retrospective cross-section, including the death records in adults that are found in the databases of the General Directorate of Health Information (Mexico), Ministry of Health, registered in the year 2017. As a dependent variable, the occurrence entity was used and as independent variables gender, season of occurrence, age and medical assistance were used.

Results:

In 2017, there were 22,954 deaths due to COPD in its various modalities for both sexes nationwide, of which 307 occurred in the state of Yucatán. The mortality rate from COPD at the national level was observed at 27.3 per 100,000 inhabitants and in Yucatan it was 20.2 per 100,000 inhabitants. By means of the Student’s t-test, a significant difference (p = 0.000) in the age of deaths due to COPD in men and women could be observed, representing in women the average of 80.4 years of age and in men of 79.06 years of age. The percentage of people who received medical assistance at the national level of 92.37% while in the state of Yucatan was 88.15%.

Conclusion:

There is a direct relationship between gender and the number of deaths due to COPD, as well as the age of death of patients; It was shown that in Yucatan the number of cases decreases during the winter and that medical assistance is lower compared to the national level.