Long-Term Trends in Unintentional Fall Mortality in China: A Population-Based Age-Period-Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: Background: Unintentional falls seriously threaten the life and health of people in China. This study aimed to assess the long-term trends of mortality from unintentional falls in China and to examine the age-, period-, and cohort-specific effects behind them. Methods: This population-based multiyear cross-sectional study of Chinese people aged 0-84 years was a secondary analysis of the mortality data of fall injuries from 1990 to 2019, derived from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Age-standardized mortality rates of unintentional falls by year, sex, and age group were used as the main outcomes and were analyzed within the age-period-cohort framework. Results: Although the crude mortality rates of unintentional falls for men and women showed a significant upwar

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8744467 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature