The association of helmet use with the outcome of motorcycle crash injury when controlling for crash/injury severity☆
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2012, InjuryCitation Excerpt :Riders without safety helmets were twice as likely to receive a head injury compared to helmeted riders.7 Besides that, there were other study results showing that in crashes where the overall degree of injury was comparable, the risk of head injury in hospitalised motorcyclists was nearly twice as high for unhelmeted riders as it was for helmeted riders, thus confirming the protective effects of safety helmets use.8 It was reported that head injuries were the 6th most common cause of death in India.9
Risk factors for riding and crashing a motorcycle unhelmeted
2011, Journal of Emergency MedicineCitation Excerpt :A retrospective study collecting data from a single institution is always a limitation. However, despite this method, our results support the findings of numerous national studies demonstrating the significant increase in brain injuries and mortality of unhelmeted motorcyclists (6–15). In conclusion, we found that riding and crashing a motorcycle while unhelmeted is associated with more frequent and more severe injuries, longer hospitalizations, increased mortality, and significantly higher hospital charges, which are often uncovered by health care insurance.
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∗Presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Toronto, Canada, October 7–9, 1991.