BMI and risk of serious upper body injury following motor vehicle crashes: Concordance of real-world and computer-simulated observations

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Zhu, Shankuan ^a,b   Kim, Jong Eun ^c   Ma, Xiaoguang ^a   Shih, Alan ^c   Laud, Purushottam W ^a   Pintar, Frank ^a   Shen, Wei ^d   Heymsfield, Steven B ^e   Allison, David B ^f  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^e MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER MODEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FACE INJURY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE INJURY; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTOR VEHICLE; PATHOLOGY; RISK; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BODY MASS INDEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLES; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77950658208     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000250     Document Type: Article

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