title: Traumatic injury among females: does gender matter?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Trauma remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Generally, the incidence of traumatic injuries is disproportionately high in males. However, trauma in females is underreported.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To study the epidemiology and outcome of different mechanisms and types of traumatic injuries in women.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a traditional narrative review using PubMed, MEDLINE and EMBASE, searching for English-language publications for gender-specific trauma between January 1993 and January 2013 using key words "trauma", "gender", "female" and "women".
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among 1150 retrieved articles, 71 articles were relevant over 20 years. Although it is an important public health problem, traumatic injuries among females remain under-reported.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a need for further research and evaluation of the exact burden of traumatic injuries among females together with the implementation of effective community based preventive programs.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Research, Trauma Surgery Section, Hamad General Hospital, PO Box 3050, Doha, Qatar ; Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical School, Doha, Qatar ; Internal Medicine, Ahmed Maher Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Ayman
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: El-Menyar
authors.affiliation: Trauma Surgery Section, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
authors.forename: Hany
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: El-Hennawy
authors.affiliation: Trauma Surgery Section, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
authors.forename: Hassan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Al-Thani
authors.affiliation: Clinical Research, Trauma Surgery Section, Hamad General Hospital, PO Box 3050, Doha, Qatar.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asim
authors.affiliation: Trauma Surgery Section, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
authors.forename: Husham
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Abdelrahman
authors.affiliation: Trauma Surgery Section, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
authors.forename: Ahmad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zarour
authors.affiliation: Trauma Surgery Section, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
authors.forename: Ashok
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parchani
authors.affiliation: Trauma Surgery Section, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
authors.forename: Ruben
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Peralta
authors.affiliation: Trauma Surgery Section, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar ; Department of Surgery, Arizona University, Tucson, AZ, USA.
authors.forename: Rifat
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Latifi
keywords: Female; Gender; Injury mechanisms; Trauma
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