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.