@article{ref1,
title="Gender differences in the epidemiological characteristics and long-term trends of injuries in Taiwan from 1998 to 2015: a cross-sectional study",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2022",
author="Chou, Pin-San and Huang, Shi-Hao and Chung, Ren-Jei and Huang, Yao-Ching and Chung, Chi-Hsiang and Wang, Bing-Long and Sun, Chien-An and Huang, Shu-Min and Lin, I.-Long and Chien, Wu-Chien",
volume="19",
number="5",
pages="e2531-e2531",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: This study used a long-term trend analysis to investigate whether gender differences were related to the risk of injury and epidemiological characteristics in Taiwan from 1998 to 2015. <br><br>MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data on 4,647,259 hospitalized patients that were injured from 1 January 1998, to 31 December 2015 were collected from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD). Among the injured patients, 2,721,612 males and 1,925,446 females were identified. Patients were age-, gender-, and index date-matched. Multiple logistic regression was used to analyze the risks of injury via gender differences. A p-value < 0.05 was considered significant. <br><br>RESULTS: The injury risk of the male patients was 1.4 times higher than that of female patients (AOR = 1.427, 95% CI = 1.40-1.44). The rising trend of male injured hospitalized patients was also greater than that of female injured hospitalized patients. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Males were more at risk of injury than females. Gender differences were related to the increased risk of epidemiological characteristics of injury.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph19052531",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052531"
}