Nader Fallah1,2
Vanessa K. Noonan1
Nancy P. Thorogood1
Brian K. Kwon3,4
Marcel A. Kopp5,6
Jan M. Schwab5,7,8*- 1Praxis Spinal Cord Institute, Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 2Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 3Department of Orthopaedics, Vancouver Spine Surgery Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 4International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 5Department of Neurology and Experimental Neurology, Clinical and Experimental Spinal Cord Injury Research, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 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, OH, United States
- 8Belford Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neuroscience, The Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States
A Correction on
Effect of body mass index on survival after spinal cord injury
by Fallah, N., Noonan, V. K., Thorogood, N. P., Kwon, B. K., Kopp, M. A., and Schwab, J. M. (2024). Front. Neurol. 14:1269030. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1269030
The 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.”
There was a mistake in Figure 2B as published. The colors in the figure did not match the corresponding BMI categories in the legend. The corrected Figure 2B, appears below.
Figure 2B
There was a mistake in Supplementary Figure 2 as published. The colors of the lines on the graph did not match the corresponding BMI categories in the legend and caption.
The corrected Supplementary Figure 2, appears below.
Supplementary Figure 2
The original version of this article has been updated.
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Keywords: acute spinal cord injury, body mass index, mortality risk, Charlson comorbidity index, injury severity score
Citation: Fallah N, Noonan VK, Thorogood NP, Kwon BK, Kopp MA and Schwab JM (2025) Correction: Effect of body mass index on survival after spinal cord injury. Front. Neurol. 16:1667648. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1667648
Received: 16 July 2025; Accepted: 02 October 2025;
Published: 10 November 2025.
Edited and reviewed by: Alberto Cliquet Junior, State University of Campinas, Brazil
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