Comorbidities and Crash Involvement among Younger and Older Drivers

Michela Papa, Virginia Boccardi, Raffaele Prestano, Edith Angellotti, Manuela Desiderio, Luigi Marano, Maria Rosaria Rizzo and Giuseppe Paolisso

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 4, 1-6

Abstract: Previous studies identified comorbidities as predictors of older driver performance and driving pattern, while the direct impact of comorbidities on road crash risk in elderly drivers is still unknown. The present study is a cross-sectional aimed at investigating the association between levels of comorbidity and crash involvement in adult and elderly drivers. 327 drivers were stratified according to age range in two groups: elderly drivers (age ≥70 years old, referred as older) and adult drivers (age

Date: 2014
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