Another reason to get your kids to slim down
Safety experts have conducted a new study that shows obese children are more likely to be hurt in a car accident than their skinnier counterparts.
Keshia M. Pollack of the Bloomberg School’s Center for Injury Research and Policy and her colleagues studied 3,232 children ages 9 to 15 who were involved in 2,873 crashes. They restricted the study to children over 5 feet tall, so that none were using booster seats; 96% were wearing seat belts; and 34% were overweight or obese.
Overall, 1.78% of children sustained a serious injury, with the incidence ranging from 1.2% for underweight children to 2.06% for overweight ones. Although the obese and overweight children were slightly more likely to be injured, the difference was not statistically significant. But when researchers broke down the data by parts of the body, overweight children were 2.64 times more likely to suffer a serious injury to arms and legs.
Information from: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_...
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