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US female gun violence victims less likely to die than male victims despite same injury severity

White_Immigrant

December 18, 2023

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https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/us-female-gun-violence-victims-less-likely-to-die-than-male-victims-despite-same-injury-severity/

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Title	US female gun violence victims less likely to die than male victims despite same injury severity
Author	White_Immigrant
Upvotes	64
Comments	6
Date	December 18, 2023 9:42 PM UTC (2 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates
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[–]White_Immigrant[S] 34 points35 points36 points 2 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

[–]theanswerisinthedata 21 points22 points23 points 2 years ago (4 children) | Copy Link

[–]JJnanajuana 17 points18 points19 points 2 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

Probably not that, people who died before getting to hospital were excluded. Although it may apply to ones who got there later and iequivelant wounds were harder for that reason.

There's a simpler reason inside the research though.

insurance matters?

From the study Some differences in the women and men, women were

older. (Av, 32 vs 29)
whiter. (45% vs 33%)
had private health insurance (26% vs 20%)
less likely to be uninsured (24% vs 33.5%)

Coexisting conditions were equivelant.

I'm not American, so I"m not sure how much impact you'd expect from insurance differencs... but seems like it might be a factor.

Direct comparison after matching showed that women were less likely to die while being treated in hospital for their injuries than were men:18.5% vs 20.0%.

And women had less complications.

Researchers also speculated about blood clotting oestrogens effect on the immune system.

[–]theanswerisinthedata 8 points9 points10 points 2 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

[–]FightOrFreight 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

[–]Algoresball 4 points5 points6 points 2 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link