Prevalence and Incidence of Spinal cord injury

Prevalence/Incidence of Spinal cord injury: Online Medical Books

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Spinal injuries: Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

Most serious spinal injuries result from motor vehicle accidents, falls, dives into shallow water, and gunshot wounds. Less serious injuries result from heavy object lifting and minor falls. Spinal dysfunction may also result from hyperparathyroidism and neoplastic lesions.

Spinal cord injuries occur in 12,000 to 15,000 people per year in the United States. About 10,000 of these injuries cause permanent paralysis; many other patients die as a result of these injuries. Most spinal cord injuries occur in males between the ages of 15 to 35 years; about 5% occur in children. Mortality is higher in pediatric spinal cord injuries.

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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005

About prevalence and incidence statistics:

The term 'prevalence' of Spinal cord injury usually refers to the estimated population of people who are managing Spinal cord injury at any given time. The term 'incidence' of Spinal cord injury refers to the annual diagnosis rate, or the number of new cases of Spinal cord injury diagnosed each year. Hence, these two statistics types can differ: a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence, but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence. For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.

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