@article{ref1,
title="Prevalence, incidence, and external causes of traumatic spinal cord injury in China: a nationally representative cross-sectional survey",
journal="Frontiers in neurology",
year="2021",
author="Jiang, Bin and Sun, Dongling and Sun, Haixin and Ru, Xiaojuan and Liu, Hongmei and Ge, Siqi and Fu, Jie and Wang, Wenzhi",
volume="12",
number="",
pages="e784647-e784647",
abstract="BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The epidemiological characteristics of traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) in China are unclear. Thus, we aimed to study prevalence, incidence, and external causes of TSCI in China nationwide.
METHODS: In 2013, we conducted a nationally representative, door-to-door epidemiological survey on TSCI in China using a complex, multistage, probability sampling design.
RESULTS: In China, the point prevalence of TSCI standardized to the China census population 2010 was 569.7 (95% CI: 514.2-630.4) per 1,000,000 in the population, 753.6 (95% CI: 663.3-854.3) per 1,000,000 among men, and 387.7 (95% CI: 324.8-461.1) per 1,000,000 among women. The incidence of TSCI standardized to the China census population 2010 was 49.8 (95% CI: 34.4-70.7) per 1,000,000 per year in the population, 63.2 (95% CI: 38.9-98.5) per 1,000,000 among men, and 36.9 (95% CI: 19.5-65.9) per 1,000,000 among women. Among the 415 TSCI events in 394 prevalent cases, the top three injury causes were falls (55.2%), motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) (26.5%), and strike injuries (10.1%), while other injury causes including gunshot and explosion accounted for 8.2%. Among the 394 prevalent cases, the mean age of patients at the time of injury was 43.7 ± 17.1 years; the male-to-female ratio was 1.86:1.
CONCLUSION: It is estimated that there are 759,302 prevalent patients with TSCI in total and 66,374 new TSCI cases annually in China. Falls and MVCs are still 2 major external causes for TSCI in China. Language: en
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language="en",
issn="1664-2295",
doi="10.3389/fneur.2021.784647",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.784647"
}