TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Spinal cord injuries in Arkansas due to violence: 1980-1989
JO  - Spinal Cord
A1  - Carroll, C. M.
SP  - 341
EP  - 348
VL  - 35
IS  - 6
N2  - In some areas of the US the incidence of violence-related spinal cord injuries (SCIs) is double or triple that of 10 years ago. The purpose of this study was to determine if this trend is evident in Arkansas, a small rural state. For the study period 15.3% of traumatic SCIs identified in Arkansas were violence-related. The overall incidence rate of traumatic SCIs in Arkansas declined from 41.11 per million in 1980 to 33.18 per million in 1989. However, the rate of violence-related SCIs rose from 3.5 per million in 1980 to 5.14 in 1989. The incidence of violence-related SCIs in Arkansas did not increase dramatically during the 1980s. However, the incidence of women with violence-related SCIs nearly tripled. With the dramatic rise in violence-related SCIs in women and the decrease in violence-related SCIs in men, the gender gap has been virtually eliminated in violence-related SCIs.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1362-4393
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -