Risk and injury severity of obese child passengers in motor vehicle crashes.

Objective: To investigate the risk and injury severity on the regional body (head, neck, and chest) of obese children in frontal motor vehicle crashes (MVCs).

Methods: No physical surrogates (i.e.

Childhood obesity as a risk factor for bone fracture: a mechanistic study.

Objective: To investigate the risk of bone fracture sustained by obese children exposed to falls. The bone fracture risk of obese children would be greater than that of their nonobese counterparts was hypothesized.

Design And Methods: Finite element-based computational models for children that reflected various levels of obesity by varying body mass and the thickness of the subcutaneous adipose tissue layer was developed.