Abstract:
:The incidence rate for acute traumatic spinal cord injury in Olmsted County, Minnesota, for 1935-1981, standardizing for age, sex, and calendar year, was 54.8 per million person-years--83.4 for males and 27.7 for females. Thirty-eight per cent of cases died prior to hospitalization. The annual incidence rate for those reaching hospital alive was 34.2 per million person-years. The proportion of cases dying during initial hospitalization was 11.5%. Considering all deaths within the first year after injury, the standardized mortality rate from spinal cord trauma was 25.5 per million person-years. Automobile-related injuries constituted half of all causes of spinal cord injury and death. An increase in both incidence and hospitalization rates of traumatic spinal cord injuries in the past 17 years was observed in young men, attributable to recreational and motorcycle-related events.
journal_name
Am J Epidemioljournal_title
American journal of epidemiologyauthors
Griffin MR,Opitz JL,Kurland LT,Ebersold MJ,O'Fallon WMdoi
10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a114058subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1985-06-01 00:00:00pages
884-95issue
6eissn
0002-9262issn
1476-6256journal_volume
121pub_type
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