AAP General News (Australia)
04-21-2009
FED: Study turns "weaker sex" argument on its head
A myth-busting Australian study into childhood trips to hospital emergency departments
shows females are NOT the weaker sex.
The study .. using data over 12-months from visits to emergency rooms across Australia
and New Zealand by children under-18 .. shows boys are more prone to becoming seriously
ill or injured.
Of the 350-thousand children taken to the hospitals .. 45 per cent were girls.
Researcher Dr JASON ACWORTH says the disparity can't be explained away as "boys being
boys" .. because they're still over-represented when trips for injuries are taken out.
Acute gastroenteritis .. acute viral illness .. and upper respiratory tract infection
.. were the most common causes of these hospital trips.
The study's published in Emergency Medicine Australasia.
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