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Table 4 Frequency and percentage of burn agents by age group (31 patients with indeterminate age)

From: Epidemiologic characteristics of death by burn injury from 2000 to 2009 in Colombia, South America: a population-based study

Age group

0–5 years

6–14 years

15–64 years

>65 years

Deaths

%

Deaths

%

Deaths

%

Deaths

%

Electric

180

23.0

178

43.0

2225

58.6

98

23.1

Lightning

17

2.2

69

16.7

624

16.5

43

10.1

Fire

380

48.5

148

35.8

773

20.4

239

56.4

Hot liquids

193

24.6

17

4.1

54

1.4

18

4.3

Hot gases

3

0.4

1

0.2

15

0.4

4

0.9

Hot solid

3

0.4

1

0.2

13

0.3

3

0.7

Unspecified

7

0.9

0

0.0

20

0.5

9

2.1

Suicides

0

0.0

0

0.0

72

1.9

10

2.4

Total

783

100.0

414

100.0

3796

100.0

424

100.0