Tator C H, Edmonds V E
Can J Surg. 1979 Nov;22(6):575-8.
The authors studied the epidemiologic aspects of acute spinal cord injury in 358 patients admitted to the Toronto General and Sunnybrook hospitals between 1948 and 1973. The ages of the patients ranged from 14 to 89 years (median 32 years) and the male:female ratio was 4.5:1. The most frequent causes of injury were traffic accidents (34.4%), accidents at work (29.3%), sports-recreational injuries (15.4%) and falls at home (9.8%). Several epidemiologic factors were identified which are important for developing programs to reduce the frequency of cord injury. In particular young persons should be made more aware of the risks they run as automobile drivers and of the hazards of diving in shallow water, middle-aged workers in the construction industry are at risk of spinal cord injury from falls and elderly farmers are at risk of falling from lofts or being crushed by overturned tractors.
作者研究了1948年至1973年间入住多伦多综合医院和桑尼布鲁克医院的358例急性脊髓损伤患者的流行病学情况。患者年龄在14岁至89岁之间（中位数为32岁），男女比例为4.5:1。最常见的损伤原因是交通事故（34.4%）、工作事故（29.3%）、运动娱乐损伤（15.4%）和家中跌倒（9.8%）。确定了几个流行病学因素，这些因素对于制定减少脊髓损伤发生率的计划很重要。特别是年轻人应该更加意识到他们作为汽车司机所面临的风险以及在浅水中潜水的危害，建筑业中年工人有因跌倒而导致脊髓损伤的风险，老年农民有从阁楼跌落或被翻倒的拖拉机压伤的风险。
