Drowning Risk Factors
What are the risk factors that lead to this condition? Are you at risk of getting Drowning? Below you'll find information on each of the known risk factors for this condition.
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Drowning Risks
A risk factor is something that increases your chance of getting a disease or condition. Risk factors include:
- Age:
- Toddler, especially under the age of one
- Ages: 15-24 (especially teenage males)
- Gender: male
- Race: black
- Location: domestic swimming pools, home wells, and unattended canals or quarries
- Inability to swim
- Use of drugs or alcohol prior to incident
- Horseplay or unsafe diving resulting in Trauma
- Child abuse
- Hypothermia
- Prior medical condition, such as seizures, syncopal episodes, cardiac conditions, and Hypoglycemia
- Children are most often the victims of drowning. The following factors increase a child's risk of drowning:
- Not knowing how to swim
- Having an unfenced pool or spa in the home
- Among children less than one year old, the most common risk factor for drowning is being left in a bathtub unattended, even for a few minutes
- The following factors increase your risk of drowning:
- Risk-taking behavior around pools or other bodies of water, especially combined with use of drugs and/or alcohol
- Not knowing how to swim
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