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The authors have studied patients with traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) occurring in Spain during 1984 and 1985. They calculate the incidence, and consider the distribution by age, sex, civil state, and the aetiology, lesional level, mortality, job, labour incapacity, dependence independence, social labour reinstatement, transportation from the place of the accident, medical assistance, type of lesion, urinary vesical dysfunction, also re-education, hospital stay, and complications.
In addition, they defined the main risk group for SCI (in respect of age, sex, occupation, etc) in order to address the preventive campaigns to the high risk group. They conclude with the prototype of acute SCI in Spain.
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Garcia-Reneses, J., Herruzo-Cabrera, R. & Martinez-Moreno, M. Epidemiological study of spinal cord injury in Spain 1984-1985. Spinal Cord 29, 180–190 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1991.26
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