Which
is the leading cause of death worldwide among boys 5 to 14 years of
age?
In
the United States, this cause of death is the second leading cause of
injury-related death among children 1 to 4 years of age, with a death
rate of 3 per 100,000,
and
in some countries, such as Thailand, the death rate among 2-year-old
children is 107 per 100,000. In many countries in Africa and in
Central America, the incidence of this cause of death is 10 to 20
times as high as the incidence in the United States. Key risk factors
for this cause of death are male sex, age of less than 14
years,alcohol use, low income, poor
education, rural residency, risky behavior and lack of
supervision.
For
people with epilepsy, the risk of this cause of death is 15 to 19
times as high as the risk for those who do not have epilepsy. For
every person who dies from this cause of death, another four persons
receive care in the emergency department for nonfatal incidences of
this cause of death.
Give us your answer or guess in the Comments!
Drowning would be the leading cause! Its summer time and teenagers like to float down the river and impress girls by jumping off bridges and doing stupid things, as well as drinking unsupervised. Some of the rapids on the American River take 100s of lives every summer. Also there are a lot of boating accidents, Summer time is a dangerous time!
ReplyDeleteI am not much impressed by the lack of spontaneous answers to this interesting question.
ReplyDeleteHaving seen only one (correct) answer to the question, I assume this class is either temporarily unconscious or DROWNING. Yes, DROWNING is the answer! See http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1013317?query=TOC
Even my son, who is not in anything medical (and currently practice a lifestyle not conducive to long life), found the answer by simply googling some of the text in my blog. By the way: would you be able to look at a beach with bathers and pick out the one(s) at acute risk of drowning? It won't be anyone thrashing/splashing around and crying HELP! See http://gcaptain.com/drowning/?10981
hans baer
My almost-daughter-in-law sent me this:
ReplyDeleteYou might like this info as well, http://live.cgaux.org/?p=872: cold water survival 1-10-1 rule. You have 1 min to get over cold water shock and calm your breathing, 10 mins to find flotation assistance, and 1 hour before hypothermia sets in. Many people think it's the hypothermia that kills you when it's actually lack of flotation:
“It is impossible to get hypothermic in cold water unless you are wearing flotation, because without flotation – you won’t live long enough to become hypothermic.”
HB