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AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Mar 14, 2006
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Obesity and Risk for Death Due to Motor Vehicle Crashes

Shankuan Zhu, MD, PhD, Peter M. Layde, MD, MSc, Clare E. Guse, MS, Purushottam W. Laud, PhD, Frank Pintar, PhD, Raminder Nirula, MD, MPH and Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH

Shankuan Zhu, Peter M. Layde, and Clare E. Guse are with the Injury Research Center and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis. Purushottam W. Laud is with the Division of Biostatistics, Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin. Frank Pintar is with the Injury Research Center and the Neurosurgery Neuroscience Lab, Medical College of Wisconsin. Raminder Nirula is with the Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin. Stephen Hargarten is with the Injury Research Center and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin.


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  		FIGURE 1—— Adjusted odds ratio for motor vehicle crash fatality by drivers’ body mass index and gender, all subjects model (n = 20 745)

Note. Reference bodt mass index = 28 kg/m2.

 

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  		FIGURE 2—— Logarithmic-scaled adjusted odds ratios of motor vehicle crash fatality by body mass index and change in velocity among male drivers involved in front-end collisions, change in velocity model (n = 4164)

Note. Reference bodt mass index = 28 kg/m2.

 




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