Prevalence of female reduction mammoplasty in Brazil from 2015 to 2019

ABSTRACT

Introduction:

Female reducing mammoplasty aims to restore the physiological volume of the breasts in cases of breast hypertrophy, to maintain symmetry and with a minimum number of complications. Although such a procedure is usual, the literature lacks epidemiological and descriptive data on breast reduction surgery. Thus, this study aims to describe the prevalence of reducing mammoplasty in Brazil from 2015 to 2019; to compare the prevalence of reducing mammoplasty among the regions of Brazil from 2015-2018 with that of 2019, and to evaluate the relationship between regional family income and the prevalence of female reduction mammoplasty in the country of 2015-2019.

Methods:

Population-based ecological study whose data were collected through Informatics Department of the Unified Health System and Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics demographic censuses. Data were collected from 2015 to 2019.

Results:

The prevalence of reducing mammoplasty in Brazil in 2019 was 0.08%, while from 2015 to 2018, this prevalence was 0.07%. There was no statistically significant difference compared to the regional prevalence from 2015 to 2018 with the prevalence of 2019. The prevalence of reducing mammoplasty in the regions of Brazil from 2015-2019 showed a moderate positive correlation with average household income per capita.

Conclusion:

The prevalence of female reduction mammoplasty in Brazil shows a trend of temporal stability over the years 2015-2019 at national and regional levels. A positive correlation between regional per capita family income and the prevalence of this procedure is suggested.

Keywords:
Mammoplasty; Prevalence; Per capita income; Epidemiology; Plastic surgery