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B DE SUAREZ, Claudia A et al. Heridas por armas de fuego y traumas vasculares: una ventana a la violencia civil en Caracas. Gac Méd Caracas. [online]. 2007, vol.115, n.4, pp.304-312. ISSN 0367-4762.

Deaths by violence in Venezuela had increased gradually becoming a public health problem, according to epidemiological and vital statistics data from the National Public Health Service, between 1950 and 2005, reports on more number of gun fire arms lesions attended in national care centres and an increase of traumatic vascular biopsies in the young male population. Aggression death rates increased 93,7 % between 1995 and 2005. According to the aggression type of attack, gun fire arms attack increased from 53,4 % in 1980 to 87,2 % in 2005. From 1990 to 2002, out of 1 307 biopsies analyzed at the “Dr. José Antonio O’ Daly”, anatomopathological institute in the Central University, 300 were vascular and 70 of them traumatic. The 90 % occurred in males, 74,3 % were produced by gun fire arms and 57 % were younger than 30 years old. The 78,6 % of the traumatic vascular lesions were located in the extremities.