Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Non-fatal and fatal crash injury risk for children in minivans compared with children in sport utility vehicles.
To compare the fatal and non-fatal crash injury risk for children in minivans compared with midsize and large sport utility vehicles (SUVs). ⋯ There may be important safety differences in vehicles during a crash that lead to fewer non-fatal injuries to child occupants of minivans compared with SUVs.
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To report the magnitude of under-reporting of road traffic injury (RTI) to the police from population-based and hospital-based data in the urban population of Hyderabad, India. ⋯ As road safety policies are based on police data in India, these studies highlight serious limitations in estimating the true magnitude of RTIs from these data, indicating the need for better methods for such estimation.
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To determine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and injury risk among US children in motor vehicle crashes. ⋯ Although overweight and obese children are not at increased overall risk of injury, they are at increased risk of injury to the lower and upper extremities. This increased risk may be due to a combination of physiology, biomechanical forces, and vehicle design.