Air bag injury linked to height
May 18, 2007
In a crash, automobile air bags may raise the odds of serious injury for short or tall front-seat passengers, a new study shows.
The study comes from Craig Newgard, MD, of Oregon Health & Science University. He's due to present his findings Friday in Chicago at the annual meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
Newgard analyzed injury statistics for 1995-2005 from a motor vehicle crash database.
The database shows that during the years studied, 52,552 drivers and 14,732 passengers were involved in crashes.
Most of those people weren't seriously injured, but 2.5% of the drivers and 2.6% of the passengers sustained serious injuries to any part of the body.
Newgard reviewed data on the drivers' and passengers' height and weight, air bags, and 10 factors about the crash.
He found that air bags were "modestly protective" for front-seat passengers of medium height, which he defined as being between 5 foot 3 inches tall to 5 foot 11 inches tall.
However, Newgard writes that "air bags appear to increase the risk of injury for large- and small-stature adults".
Newgard calculates that for drivers taller than 6 foot 3 inches, air bags were associated with a 5% greater risk of serious injury. He also estimates that for drivers shorter than 4 foot 11 inches, air bags were associated with a 4% increase in the risk of serious injury.The naturopathic doctors completed full health evaluations, potential contributory effects, and then applied a set of individualized treatments at each visit using the standard practices for which NDs are licensed in Oregon. Similar protocols existed for the SDC and TCM volunteers.
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