Injury Infection and Critical Care

New findings from University of Texas in the area of injury infection and critical care described

Published in Health Risk Factor Week, January 22nd, 2008

"During the last 10 years, the number of motorcycle riders in the United States has risen sharply. The corresponding increase in fatalities observed during this time may be because of the increase in riders, or because the number of states that mandate universal helmet use has decreased," investigators in the United States report.

"We examined the effect of the repeal of Florida's helmet law in July 2000 to test the hypothesis that the increase in fatalities observed after repeal resulted from an increase in the number of motorcycle riders. We identified all motorcycle fatalities (N = 197) in Miami-Dade county for a 3.5-year period before repeal (prelaw), and a similar...

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Source: Health Risk Factor Week (2008-01-22)

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