Body habitus as a predictor of burn risk in children: do fat boys still get burned?

Body habitus as a predictor of burn risk in children: do fat boys still get burned?

Previous research at this institute has demonstrated that heavy-for-age boys are more burn prone than their normal sized counterparts. As this study is now 26 years old, we reexamined the anthropomorphic indices of 372 children admitted to one burn center between January 1991 and July 1997 to determ...

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Veröffentlicht in:Burns 1998-12, Vol.24 (8), p.725-727
Hauptverfasser: Barillo, David J, Burge, Timothy S, Harrington, David T, Coffey, El Centro, Shirani, Khan Z, Goodwin, Cleon W
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adolescent
Anthropometry
Biological and medical sciences
Body Constitution
Body Height
Body Surface Area
Body Weight
Burn
Burns
Burns - classification
Burns - etiology
Burns, Electric - classification
Child
Child Abuse
Child, Preschool
Cohort Studies
Female
Forecasting
Humans
Infant
Male
Medical sciences
Nonaccidental trauma
Pediatrics
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Sex Factors
Smoke Inhalation Injury - classification
Survival Rate
Thermal injury
Trauma
Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents
Violence
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Zusammenfassung:Previous research at this institute has demonstrated that heavy-for-age boys are more burn prone than their normal sized counterparts. As this study is now 26 years old, we reexamined the anthropomorphic indices of 372 children admitted to one burn center between January 1991 and July 1997 to determine if this trend was still evident. Male children were over-represented in the ≤5th and >95th percentiles for both height ( p
ISSN:0305-4179
1879-1409
DOI:10.1016/S0305-4179(98)00088-6