Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
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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.
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The scale of road traffic injuries (RTIs) in India is uncertain because of limitations in the availability and reliability of incidence data. ⋯ There is a high burden of RTI in this urban population. With the recent attention focused on RTI by the Government of India, these findings may assist in planning appropriate initiatives to reduce the RTI burden.
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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 describe poison prevention practices for a range of substances and explore the relationship between prevention practices and perceptions of toxicity. ⋯ Parents' perceptions of toxicity of substances were sometimes inaccurate. Perceived toxicity was associated with putting substances away immediately after use for six substances and with safe storage for four substances. The effect of addressing perceptions of toxicity on poison prevention practices requires evaluation.