Table 2: Penetrating abdominal injury, number of patients (%).

BMI > 30 BMI ≤ 30 P-value
Non-Operative Intervention 25 (32) 131 (43) 0.211
Operative Intervention 54 (68) 171 (57) 0.06
Non-therapeutic Laparotomies 28 (52) 60 (35) 0.041
Therapeutic Laparotomies 26 (48) 111 (65) 0.189
Negative Intra-abdominal Injury* 44 (56) 167 (55) 0.592
Positive Intra-abdominal Injury* 35 (44) 135 (45) 0.662

Data derived from patients in the operative column; *Intra-abdominal injury found in both operative and non-operative patients.