Table 4.
Top 10 specific etiologies of spinal cord injury by sex and race
| Sex | Race/ethnicity | |||||||||
| Male (n=6,132) | Female (n=1,700) | White (n=5,051) | Black (n=1,562) | Hispanic (n=692) | ||||||
| Etiology | Rank | (%) | Rank | (%) | Rank | (%) | Rank | (%) | Rank | (%) |
| Automobile | 1 | (27.9) | 1 | (44.4) | 1 | (32.0) | 2 | (28.9) | 1 | (34.2) |
| Fall | 2 | (25.6) | 2 | (24.2) | 2 | (27.1) | 3 | (19.6) | 2 | (23.3) |
| Gunshot | 3 | (11.7) | 4 | (5.8) | 6 | (3.0) | 1 | (33.0) | 3 | (14.6) |
| Motorcycle | 4 | (8.0) | 5 | (2.4) | 3 | (8.2) | 5 | (3.4) | 4 | (5.1) |
| Diving | 5 | (5.3) | 5 | (2.4) | 4 | (5.9) | – | – | 6 | (3.6) |
| Medical/surgical | 6 | (3.3) | 3 | (7.6) | 5 | (4.3) | 4 | (3.8) | 5 | (4.9) |
| Falling object | 7 | (2.7) | – | – | 8 | (2.5) | 8 | (1.2) | 7 | (3.0) |
| Bicycle | 8 | (2.4) | 9 | (1.2) | 7 | (2.7) | – | – | 9 | (1.4) |
| ATV/ATC | 9 | (1.8) | 7 | (1.6) | 9 | (2.4) | – | – | – | – |
| Pedestrian | – | – | 6 | (2.2) | – | – | 7 | (1.6) | 8 | (2.3) |
| Horseback riding | – | – | 8 | (1.5) | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Other sport | 10 | (1.1) | – | – | 10 | 1.2 | – | – | – | – |
| Other unclassified | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9 | (1.0) | 10 | (1.2) |
| Other vehicular | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | (0.7) | – | – |
| Personal contact | – | – | 10 | (1.0) | – | – | 6 | (2.1) | – | – |
Note: ATV/ATC = all-terrain vehicle/all-terrain cycle.