Contemporary trends in the epidemiology of traumatic spinal cord injury: changes in age and etiology

Neuroepidemiology
Carlos Henrique Suzuki BellucciTarcisio E P Barros Filho

Abstract

Epidemiological features of spinal cord injury (SCI) have been changing over the last decades. We evaluated the contemporary trends in the epidemiology of traumatic SCI patients from a rehabilitation center. In a cross-sectional study, a consecutive series of 348 patients with traumatic SCI were evaluated. Variables were collected through an epidemiological form, which included gender, age at injury, duration and cause of SCI. We investigated SCI epidemiological trends over time including the association between gender and age at injury with SCI features such as etiology, injury severity and level. The mean age at SCI has increased from 26.0 ± 11.8 in patients with SCI before 2003 to 37.9 ± 15.7 in those with SCI after 2009 (p < 0.001). Gunshot wounds were the main cause of injury in patients with SCI before 2003, dropping from 40.6 to 16.9% after 2009 and being surpassed by road traffic injuries (38.6%) and falls (31.4%) after 2009 (p < 0.001). Gender, SCI severity and level have not changed significantly over the time. There was a major increase in the average age of patients as well as changes in the etiology of SCI over the past fifteen years, including a significant decrease in gunshot wounds and an increase in the frequen...Continue Reading

Citations

Sep 8, 2017·The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine·Feng-Shui ChangJun Lu
May 8, 2019·International Braz J Urol : Official Journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology·Lisley Keller Liidtke CintraCristiano Mendes Gomes
Sep 25, 2019·The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine·Amanda H X LeeAndrei V Krassioukov
Apr 1, 2016·Investigación Y Educación En Enfermería·Diana Milena Duarte TorresMaría Elisa Moreno Fergusson
Jan 20, 2021·The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine·Ali LakhaniElizabeth Kendall
May 27, 2021·Spinal Cord Series and Cases·Yalisma Andrea GiraldoFrancisco J Bonilla-Escobar

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