Table 1 Age, gender, and injury characteristics of older adults aging with long-term spinal cord injury.

From: Changes in health-related quality of life among older adults aging with long-term spinal cord injury

 

n (%)/median (25th–75th percentiles)

Age (years)

66 (62–73)

Gender

  Men

52 (68)

  Women

25 (32)

Age at time of injury (years)

35 (22–51)

Time since injury (years)

31 (20–39)

Cause of injury

  Traumatica

49 (64)

  Non-traumaticb

28 (36)

Level and severity of injury

  Tetraplegia AIS A–C

12 (16)

  Paraplegia AIS A–C

25 (32)

  All AIS D

40 (52)

  1. AIS American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale [23].
  2. aTraffic/transportation, fall, workplace accident, diving accident, gunshot/assault/torture, other traumatic.
  3. bSpinal tumor, spinal disk herniation, spinal arteriovenous malformation, spinal infarction, spinal infection.
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