... decrease in the number of deaths caused by gastro-intestinal diseases, injuries and poisoning, and infectious and parasitic diseases in the last three decades, in Portugal [10]. Since some of these ... identify points of significant change in the log-linear slope of the trend (joinpoints) [14]. The analysis starts with the minimum number of joinpoints (no joinpoints corresponds to a straight line), ... burdens of disease came from cancers in men and from cardiovascular diseases in women. Keywords Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases, Mortality, Trends, Portugal Background In 2004, cardiovascular diseases...