Recent increases in fatal and non-fatal injury among people aged 65 years and over in the USA

Injury Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-30

  Hu, Guoqing ^a   Baker, Susan P ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLING; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77449114729     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2009.023481     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). WISQARS fatal injuries: leading causes of death reports. http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus.html. (accessed 5 Jan 2009).
2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). WISQARS nonfatal injuries: nonfatal injury reports. http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/nfirates.html. (accessed 6 Jan 2009).
3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Increases in age-group-specific injury mortality - United States, 1999-2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2007;56:1281-4.
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Unintentional poisoning deaths - United States, 1999-2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2007; 56:93-6.
5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). State-specific unintentional-injury deaths - United States, 1999-2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2007;56:1137-40.
6. Hu G, Baker SP. Trends in unintentional injury deaths, US, 1999-2005 age, gender, and racial/ethnic differences. Am J Prev Med 2009;37:188-94.
7. Hoyert DL, Arias E, Smith B, et al. Deaths: final data for 1999. National Vital Statistics Reports; 49(8). Hyattsville (MD): National Center for Health Statistic, 2001. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr49/nvsr49_08.pdf (accessed 10 Mar 2009).
8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS™): years of potential life lost (YPLL) reports, 1999-2005. http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/ypll.html. (accessed 6 Jan 2009).
9. Hu G, Wilcox HC, Wissow L, et al. Mid-life suicide: an increasing problem in US whites, 1999-2005. Am J Prev Med 2008;35:589-93.
10. Brophy M, Zhang X, Xiang H. Injuries among US adults with disabilities. Epidemiology 2008;19:465-71.
11. Rohr K. Alcohol use and injury-related outcomes in older rural trauma patients. Prairie Rose 2007-8;76:6-11.
12. The Office of Applied Studies, SAMHSA. The DASIS Report. Synectics for Management Decisions Inc., RTI International. http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k5/olderAdultsTX/olderAdultsTX.htm (accessed 26 Aug 2009).
13. Finkelstein EA, Chen H, Prabhu M, et al. The relationship between obesity and injuries among US adults. Am J Health Promot 2007;21:460-8.
14. Ogden CL, Carroll MD, Curtin LR, et al. Prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States, 1999-2004. JAMA 2006;295:1549-55.
15. Runyan CW, Perkis D, Marshall SW, et al. Unintentional injuries in the home in the United States. Part II: morbidity. Am J Prev Med 2005;28:80-7.
16. Runyan CW, Casteel C, Perkis D, et al. Unintentional injuries in the home in the United States. Part I: mortality. Am J Prev Med 2005;28:73-9.
17. Stevens JA, Mack KA, Paulozzi LJ, et al. Self-reported falls and fall-related injuries among persons aged >or=65 years - United States, 2006. J Safety Res 2008;39:345-9.
18. Stevens JA, Corso PS, Finkelstein EA, et al. The costs of fatal and non-fatal falls among older adults. Inj Prev 2006;12:290-5.
19. Paulozzi LJ, Ballesteros MF, Stevens JA. Recent trends in mortality from unintentional injury in the United States. J Safety Res 2006;37:277-83.
20. Kannus P, Parkkari J, Koskinen S, et al. Fall-induced injuries and deaths among older adults. JAMA 1999;281:1895-9.
21. Kannus P, Niemi S, Palvanen M, et al. Rising incidence of fall-induced injuries among elderly adults. J Public Health 2005;13:212-15.
22. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) (2000-6). http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/hdasd/nhds.htm#Publications. (accessed 29 April 2009).
23. Petridou ET, Dikalioti SK, Dessypris N, et al. The evolution of unintentional injury mortality among elderly in Europe. J Aging Health 2008;20:159-82.
24. Beck LF, Dellinger AM, O'Neil ME. Motor vehicle crash injury rates by mode of travel, United States: using exposure-based methods to quantify differences. Am J Epidemiol 2007;166:212-18.
25. Miniño AM, Anderson RN, Fingerhut LA, et al. Deaths: injuries, 2002. Natl Vital Stat Rep 2006;54:1-124.
26. Warner M, Chen LH, Makuc DM. Increase in fatal poisonings involving opioid analgesics in the United States, 1999-2006. NCHS data brief, no. 22. Hyattsville, MD, USA: National Center for Health Statistics, 2009. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db22.pdf (accessed 5 January 2010).
27. Dessypris N, Dikalioti SK, Skalkidis I, et al. Combating unintentional injury in the United States: lessons learned from the ICD-10 classification period. J Trauma 2009;66:519-25.