Introduction:

in Cuba diseases of the cardiovascular system have been considered one of the main causes of maternal death, with very high values ​​in contrast to other health indicators. Knowing the essence of this phenomenon is essential for the proper management of policies that allow reducing this indicator.

Objective:

to describe the behaviour of maternal mortality from cardiovascular causes in Cuba since 2013 to 2019.

Methods:

a retrospective longitudinal descriptive study was carried out, which included maternal deaths due to cardiovascular causes in the period from 2013 to 2019. An analysis of the trend of this indicator was carried out and a prediction of its behaviour for the years following the period, through Microsoft Excel software add-ins. General and cause-based maternal mortality rates were used as a summary measure for statistical analysis.

Results:

maternal mortality from cardiovascular causes tended to oscillate around the mean throughout the period. This indicator increased by 10.3%. The main causes of death were diseases of the circulatory system (65.5%) and hypertensive disorders (34.2%). An increase in rates for these causes was predicted for 2021.

Conclusions:

the behaviour of maternal mortality due to cardiovascular causes did not have a specific pattern in its trend, however there is a resistance to the decrease. A possible increase was estimated for future years, so a review of this problem by the Health System is needed.

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