Females fall more from heights but males survive less among a geriatric population: Insights from an American Level 1 Trauma center
BMC Geriatrics Sep 09, 2019
El-Menyar A, et al. - In this retrospective analysis, researchers focused on the consequences of fall from a height (FFH) among older adults, presuming that injury and mortality associated with fall are the same in both genders in an elderly population. They analyzed data from patients admitted to a Level 1 Trauma center because of sustaining fall injury at the age of at least 60 years. They found that female participants more commonly sustained FFH but males exhibited worse outcomes. Two-thirds of FFH occurred at a height ≤ 1 m. Independent predictors of mortality included shock index and male gender, as revealed in multivariate analysis. Experts concluded that there is a necessity of preventive measures for falls at home for the older adults of both genders.
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