Obesity and non-fatal motor vehicle crash injuries: sex difference effects
Author(s) -
Xiaoguang Ma,
Purushottam W. Laud,
Frank A. Pintar,
Je Hyeong Kim,
Alan M. Shih,
Wei Shen,
Steven B. Heymsfield,
David B. Allison,
Shankuan Zhu
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of obesity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.663
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1476-5497
pISSN - 0307-0565
DOI - 10.1038/ijo.2010.270
Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , crashworthiness , body mass index , injury prevention , crash , demography , poison control , occupational safety and health , logistic regression , motor vehicle crash , medical emergency , pathology , sociology , computer science , programming language
Obesity and motor vehicle crash (MVC) injuries are two parallel epidemics in the United States. An important unanswered question is whether there are sex differences in the associations between the presence of obesity and non-fatal MVC injuries.
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