Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients presented after sledging-related injuries
| Total N=193 (%) | Male N=85 (%) | Female N=108 (%) | P value* | |
| Demographics | ||||
| Age (years), median IQR | 33 (26–44) | 36 (29–46) | 30 (23–41) | 0.001 |
| 16–25 | 47 (24) | 13 (15) | 34 (32) | 0.015 |
| 26–35 | 68 (35) | 28 (33) | 40 (37) | |
| 36–45 | 35 (18) | 21 (25) | 14 (13) | |
| >45 | 43 (22) | 23 (27) | 20 (19) | |
| Mechanism of injury | ||||
| Fall | 134 (70) | 61 (73) | 73 (68) | 0.742* |
| Collision | 52 (27) | 21 (25) | 31 (29) | |
| Other on the slope | 6 (3) | 2 (2) | 4 (4) | |
| Transportation mode | ||||
| Air rescue | 53 (28) | 21 (25) | 32 (30) | 0.116 |
| Ground-based ambulance | 14 (7) | 3 (4) | 11 (10) | |
| Self-referral | 126 (65) | 61 (72) | 65 (60) | |
The Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare continuous variables, and the χ2 test to compare categorical variables unless indicated otherwise.
The cumulative numbers may not reach 100% due to missing values. Mechanism of injury was not documented in one case.
Statistically significant values have been highlighted in bold (p <0.05).
*Fisher’s exact test.