Motor vehicle crashes obesity and seat belt use: A deadly combination?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 412-419

  Zarzaur, Ben L ^a   Marshall, Stephen W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal Injury; Mortality; Motor Vehicle Crash; Obesity; Seat belt

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEATBELT INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; SEATBELT; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OBESITY; SEAT BELTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 43149095565     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3180f61c33     Document Type: Article

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