Children under 3 and adults over 85 are the age groups most commonly injured from falling down stairs, but the third-most likely group is often overlooked, experts say: young adults in their 20s.
So in apublished Wednesday, a team of researchers at Purdue University focused on that cohort, analyzing particular behaviors that lead young adults to fall on stairs and how much those behaviors varied between men and women.
The researchers categorized the sexes of the students they observed based on appearance and did not account for gender-nonconforming people. In the new study, women were found to be significantly more likely to be speaking to another person while walking down the stairs. However, that trend wasn’t the case for children 10 and younger — girls accounted for about 44% of emergency room visits in that group. The share jumped to about 64% for people from 11 to 60 years old, and to about 70% for those 61 and older.
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