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Table 2 Adult death rates from falls per 100,000 over 2001–2018 by age strata with regression predictions of annual death rate change

From: The predictive power of geographic health care utilization for unintentional fatal fall rates

Age Group

Mean Death Rate Per 100,000 (SE)

Range

Regression Estimate (β)

t value

Pr (>|t|)

R2

20–24

0.7 (0.02)

0.5–0.9

−0.02

− 0.3

0.75

0.71

25–29

0.7 (0.02)

0.6–0.9

−0.01

− 0.2

0.84

0.46

30–34

0.8 (0.02)

0.7–0.9

0.00

0.0

0.99

0.001

35–39

1.1 (0.02)

0.9–1.2

−0.01

−0.2

0.83

0.28

40–44

1.6 (0.03)

1.3–1.8

−0.02

−0.4

0.65

0.66

45–49

2.4 (0.04)

2.0–2.7

−0.02

−0.4

0.73

0.27

50–54

3.4 (0.07)

2.7–3.8

0.05

1.1

0.28

0.68

55–59

4.6 (0.2)

3.3–5.6

0.12

2.6

0.009

0.91

60–64

6.4 (0.2)

4.9–8.0

0.17

3.6

0.0004

0.97

65–69

9.9 (0.3)

7.8–12.5

0.26

5.5

<  0.00001

0.96

70–74

18.0 (0.6)

12.3–22.2

0.49

10.4

<  0.00001

0.93

75–79

36.3 (1.4)

25.1–44.7

1.09

23.0

<  0.00001

0.95

80–84

74.8 (3.1)

50.0–91.7

2.46

51.8

<  0.00001

0.97

85+

201.1 (11.0)

124.1–270.5

8.74

184.2

<  0.00001

0.997

  1. Pr probability, R2 coefficient of determination. Bold font emphasizes p < 0.05