Traumatic spinal cord injury mortality from 2006 to 2016 in China.

Conclusions: TSCI mortality rates were higher in males and in rural residents than in females and in urban residents during the study time period. TSCI mortality increased quickly as age increased; adults aged 65 years and older had the highest mortality rate. Falls and motor vehicle crashes were the two most common causes of TSCI mortality. More prevention efforts are needed to reduce a number of deaths from TSCI injury considering a substantial increase in TSCI mortality. PMID: 31944926 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: J Spinal Cord Med Source Type: research