However, in a
recent study of children and adolescents who presented at a paediatric emergency
department of a level-1 trauma centre, the obese children were 2.3 times as likely to have
sustained a sprain (OR 2.25, 95% CI 2.04 to 2.47), but were not more likely to have
sustained fractures (OR 1.08, 95% CI 1.00 to 1.16) than their normal weight peers