Emily A Grimsley, Meagan D Read, Michelle Y McGee, Johnathan V Torikashvili, Noah T Richmond, Haroon M Janjua, Paul C Kuo
BACKGROUND: Over 48,000 people died by firearm in the United States in 2021. Firearm violence has many inciting factors, but the full breadth of associations has not been characterized. We explored several state-level factors including factors not previously studied or insufficiently studied, to determine their association with state firearm-related death rates. METHODS: Several state-level factors, including firearm open carry (OC) and concealed carry (CC) laws, state rank, partisan lean, urbanization, poverty rate, anger index, and proportion of college-educated adults, were assessed for association with total firearm-related death rates (TFDR)...
August 2023: Surgery open science