CORRECTION article
Front. Neurol.
Sec. Neuroepidemiology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1667648
Correction: Effect of body mass index on survival after spinal cord injury
Provisionally accepted
- 1Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, Praxis Spinal Cord Institute, Vancouver, Canada
- 2Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- 3Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Spine Surgery Institute, Vancouver, Canada
- 4The University of British Columbia International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, Vancouver, Canada
- 5Department of Neurology and Experimental Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Clinical and Experimental Spinal Cord Injury Research, Berlin, Germany
- 6QUEST-Center for Transforming Biomedical Research, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
- 7Department of Neurology, Spinal Cord Injury Division, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, United States
- 8Belford Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neuroscience, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, United States
Select one of your emails
You have multiple emails registered with Frontiers:
Notify me on publication
Please enter your email address:
If you already have an account, please login
You don't have a Frontiers account ? You can register here
There was a mistake in the caption of figure 2B as published. The caption "Linearized cumulative survival over time illustrated a protective effect of a higher BMI in a class (dose) dependent manner which occurs early and is long-lasting. Whereas, elevated mortality was observed in patients who were severely underweight (< 17.5 kg/m2, red, n = 12), patients with a BMI of 17.5-30.5 kg/m2 (green, n = 578) or > 30.5 kg/m2 (blue, n = 53) a less negative slope that nearly plateaus after 3 years." was missing "… were protected mirrored by…". The corrected caption of figure 2B appears below. "Linearized cumulative survival over time illustrated a protective effect of a higher BMI in a class (dose) dependent manner which occurs early and is long-lasting. Whereas, elevated mortality was observed in patients who were severely underweight (< 17.5 kg/m2, red, n = 12), patients with a BMI of 17.5-30.5 kg/m2 (green, n = 578) or > 30.5 kg/m2 (blue, n = 53) were protected mirrored by a less negative slope that nearly plateaus after 3 years."The original version of this article has been updated. There was a mistake in the figure 2B as published. The colours in the figure did not match the corresponding BMI-categories in the legend.The corrected figure 2B appears below.The original version of this article has been updated. The original version of this article has been updated.BMI > 30 (purple, n=6/67) BMI of 25-29.9 (beige, n=35/227) BMI of 18-5-24.9 (green, n=52/325) BMI < 18.5 (blue, n=9/24)
Keywords: Charlson Comorbidity Index, Acute Spinal Cord Injury, Body Mass Index, Injury Severity Score, mortality risk
Received: 16 Jul 2025; Accepted: 02 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Fallah, Noonan, Thorogood, Kwon, Kopp and Schwab. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jan M Schwab, jan.schwab@osumc.edu
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.