International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Int J Epidemiol. 2017 Aug 1;46(4):1086-1090. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyx058.
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the burden of traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) is largely unknown. The estimated incidence of TSCI in LMICs is 25.5/million/year, and the impact on affected patients and their families is presumed to be immense due to the social structure, limited health system resources and reliance on family to care for those that survive injury to return home. In sub-Saharan Africa, extrapolated regional figures for incidence range from 21 - 29/million/year, and the occurrence of a spinal injury is likely to be fatal within a year.
在中低收入国家（LMICs），外伤性脊髓损伤（TSCI）的负担在很大程度上是未知的。估计 LMICs 的 TSCI 发病率为 25.5/百万/年，由于社会结构、有限的卫生系统资源以及依赖家庭照顾那些幸存下来的伤员返回家园，因此预计对受影响的患者及其家庭的影响是巨大的。在撒哈拉以南非洲，推断的区域发病率范围为 21-29/百万/年，一年内发生脊柱损伤很可能是致命的。
