Open AccessIs High Weight Status Associated with Pediatric Forearm Fractures Requiring Anatomic Reduction?
Author(s) -
Leticia Manning Ryan,
Stephen J. Teach,
Uchenna Ezeibe,
A. Lall,
Rachel E. Wood,
James M. Chamberlain
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of investigative medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.879
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1708-8267
pISSN - 1081-5589
DOI - 10.1097/jim.0000000000000185
Subject(s) - medicine , forearm , odds ratio , confidence interval , logistic regression , epidemiology , emergency department , reduction (mathematics) , pediatrics , surgery , psychiatry , geometry , mathematics
High weight status is associated with increased forearm fracture risk but its relationship to severity of fracture has not been evaluated. We compared the epidemiology of children's forearm fractures treated with fracture reduction to those not treated with reduction, hypothesizing that high weight status would be significantly associated with need for reduction.