2016/01/27 by Seung‐Ju Kim, Joonghyun Ahn, Hyung-Kook Kim +1 · 41 citations
Medicine · #Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics #Bone fractures and treatments #Child Abuse and Related Trauma #Emergency medicine #Injury prevention #Internal medicine #Medicine #Obesity #Occupational safety and health #Pediatrics #Physical therapy #Poison control #Surgery
paper · doi:10.1111/apa.13343
published in Acta Paediatrica 105(10), 1152-1157 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2016/01/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
UNLABELLED: Two of the most prevalent problems children facing worldwide are injuries and obesity. We conducted a systematic review of published studies that evaluated the effects of obesity on children with traumatic injuries. Six studies published between 2006 and 2014 were identified, comprising a total of 4594 children: 867 were obese and 3727 were not. Obese children were 25% more likely to have extremity fractures than nonobese children (p = 0.003), and their mortality rate was significantly higher at 4.7% versus 2.8% (p = 0.026). CONCLUSION: Our review showed that obese children were more likely to have extremity fractures and die of traumatic injuries than nonobese children.