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Incidence, severity, and outcomes of brain injuries involving bicycles.

Author(s) -

Jess F. Kraus,

Daniel Fife,

Carol Conroy

Publication year - 1987

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.77.1.76

Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , injury prevention , poison control , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , suicide prevention , population , blood alcohol , demography , emergency medicine , environmental health , pathology , physics , sociology , optics

We performed a population-based study of bicycle-related brain injuries in San Diego, California, residents during 1981. Incidence rates among males were three times higher than for females and were highest at ages 10-14 years for males. Only one-third of bicycle-related brain injuries involved collision with a motor vehicle, and this proportion was independent of age or gender. Brain injuries from motor-vehicle collisions were more severe than those resulting from other causes. Over half the brain-injured bicyclists aged 15 and older who were blood alcohol tested were legally intoxicated.

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