Rising mortality trends due to falls among the elderly in Southwest China from 2014 to 2022: age-period-cohort analysis of 6,524 individuals
Zhi Lei, Haohang Zeng, Tianyong Wu, Dongyang Liu, HaoLin Zhang, Song Fan, Qing Zeng · 2025
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Zhi Lei and six co-authors published a study in 2025 on the rising toll of fatal falls among older adults in Luzhou, southwest China. Falls already rank among the top killers of the elderly, and local records from 2014 to 2022 let the team separate the effects of aging itself, calendar period, and birth cohort. The analysis covered 6,524 fall deaths past age sixty.
Death rates climbed for both sexes at about six percent a year. Risk rose steeply with age: men aged eighty to eighty-four died at more than double the rate of the youngest group, and women of that age at nearly four times. The period risk roughly doubled across the study years, while birth cohort showed no clear pattern. Prevention, the authors argue, must target the oldest old and whatever changed after 2014.
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| CREATOR | Zhi Lei, Haohang Zeng, Tianyong Wu, Dongyang Liu, HaoLin Zhang, Song Fan, Qing Zeng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |