The young male peak in different categories of trauma victims.
The gender distribution of 246,277 trauma patients was investigated for 9 different categories of accidents. For all categories, a young male peak was observed for the 20-29-yr.-olds. Until the age of 59 years, prevalence of men was clear for all types of accidents. After the age of 60 a reversal to prevalence of women was observed for accidental falls.
Kingma
J
J
Department of Traumatology, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000059:Accidents / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*