Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 90, Issue 10 , Pages 1708-1715 , October 2009

Risk of Mortality After Spinal Cord Injury: An 8-Year Prospective Study

  • James S. Krause, PhD

      Affiliations

    • College of Health Professions, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to James S. Krause, PhD, Department of Health Sciences and Research, College of Health Professions, Medical University of South Carolina, 77 President St, Suite 117, MSC 700, Charleston, SC 29425
    • ,
  • Yusheng Zhai, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
    • ,
  • Lee L. Saunders, PhD

      Affiliations

    • College of Health Professions, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
    • ,
  • Rickey E. Carter, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

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 Supported by a field-initiated grant from the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (grant no. H133G030117) and the Model Spinal Cord Injury Systems (H133N000005), and funding from the National Institutes of Health (grant no. 1R01 NS 48117). The opinions here are those of the grantee and do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies.

 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit on the authors or on any organization with which the authors are associated.

 Reprints are not available from the author.

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doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2009.04.020

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