Injuries during adolescence
Kazár, G.; Kósa, J.; Köfalvi, I.; Pestessy, J.
Orvosi Hetilap 135(15): 797-800
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0030-6002 PMID: 8177596 Document Number: 438899
The incidence of injuries reaches the highest level in the adolescent age-group, as proved also in our survey of accidents in a period of one year in County Vas, Hungary. The incidence is extremely high in boys: 241 per 1000 heads of this age-group while no increase can be observed in girls due to an earlier puberty. The risk-rate of boys appears high at every type of injuries even at those that were caused intended or in an intoxicated state. As to the rest of indices the age-group of adolescents shows a transition between the childhood and the adult age, meanwhile the injuries of the adolescents stay nearer to those of the young adults.