- Children in higher-income families are more likely to suffer fractures. Fractures are also more common in the city than in the countryside, shows a new dissertation at Umeå University.
- The doctoral student and pediatric orthopedist Erik Hedström has gone through all the injuries that led to emergency visits to Norrland University Hospital between 1993 and 2014, with a focus on fractures.
- “The link between income and fractures can possibly be explained by the fact that families with higher incomes more often have trampolines, skis and bicycles and greater opportunities to participate in activities with a risk of fractures,” he says.
The total risk that a child would ever suffer from at least one fracture was about 35 percent, ie just over one in three children.
Source: ICELAND NEWS