The link between medical conditions and fatal drownings in Canada: a 10-year cross-sectional analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drowning accounts for hundreds of preventable deaths in Canada every year, but the impact of preexisting medical conditions on the likelihood of death from drowning is not known. We aimed to describe the prevalence of pre-existing medical conditions among people who fatally drowned in Canada and evaluate the risk of fatal drowning among people with common pre-existing medical conditions.

Methods

We reviewed all Canadian unintentional fatal drownings (2007-2016) in the Drowning Prevention Research Centre Canada's database. For each fatal drowning we established whether the person had pre-existing medical conditions and whether those conditions contributed to the drowning. We calculated relative risk (RR) of fatal drowning stratified by age and sex for each pre-exis

SUBMITTER: Dunne CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9259405 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature