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Left-handedness and accident-related injury risk.

Author(s) -

Stanley Coren

Publication year - 1989

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.79.8.1040

Subject(s) - relative risk , left handed , injury prevention , medicine , demography , poison control , occupational safety and health , suicide prevention , human factors and ergonomics , psychology , environmental health , confidence interval , pathology , physics , sociology , optics

Self-reported injuries among left-handed and right-handed people were compared in a survey of 1,896 college students in British Columbia, Canada. Left-handers were more likely to report having an injury requiring medical attention during the last two years (OR = 1.89, 95% CI = 1.39, 2.58). Relative risk was highest for left-handed males when driving motor vehicles (OR = 2.35, CI = 1.25, 4.43). Regardless of handedness, males had slightly higher relative risks of injury than females.

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