Baby walker injury, disability, and death in a high-income middle eastern country, as reported by siblings

Table 1 Number of users of baby walkers and of injured babies per family and total number of injuries, families of female Grade-12 students, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, 2005 (n = 696 families; 2466 children)

No. of children who used BW per family	No. of families	%	No. of children who used a BW	No. of BW injured babies per family	Injured babies		Injuries
No. of children who used BW per family	No. of families	%	No. of children who used a BW	No. of BW injured babies per family	No.	%	No.^d
1	104	15	104	1	144	23	144
2	122	18	244	2	71	11	142
3	91	13	273	3	33	5	99
4	85	12	340	4	22	4	88
5	69	10	345	5	11	2	55
>5	134	19	1070^a	>5	16	3	118^a
Total used BW	605	87	2376		297	48	646
None	90	13	90	None	330	53
Total	695^b	100	2466	Total	627	101^c

Note: ^aMultiple categories involved to give total; ^b1 missing value;^c percent does not total 100 due to rounding; ^d > one injury per child sometimes occurred

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