Women have lower rate of in-hospital mortality, deep vein thrombosis, lower incidence of drug, alcohol withdrawal syndrome<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
By Elana Gotkine HealthDay Reporter<\/b><\/p>\n
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Among patients with admission for firearms-related injury, women have lower mortality and better outcomes than men, according to a study published online Dec. 12 in Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open<\/em>.<\/p>\n Catherine Zwemer, from The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C., and colleagues examined the demographics, injury patterns, and outcomes of firearms-related injury in women versus men in the United States using data from 2013 to 2019 from the National Trauma Database. Data were included for 196,696 patients (23,379 [11.9 percent] were women) admitted after firearms-related injury during the study period.<\/p>\n Overall, 23,378 of the female patients were successfully matched to a male counterpart. After matching, the researchers found that compared with men, women had a lower rate of in-hospital mortality (18.6 versus 20.0 percent), lower rate of deep vein thrombosis (1.2 versus 1.5 percent), and lower incidence of drug or alcohol withdrawal syndrome (0.2 versus 0.5 percent).<\/p>\n “National data of hospitalized trauma patients demonstrate that females have lower mortality and better outcomes than males after admission for firearms-related injury,” the authors write. “Further prospective studies are warranted to investigate the ramifications for females and trauma care underlying our findings.”<\/p>\n