Thursday, January 24, 2013

Research: Obese drivers more likely to die in crashes



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Obese drivers are more likely to die in collisions than people of normal weight, a new study has found.
The risk of death increased the more obese the driver was, according to the study released Monday in the BMJ Group's Emergency Medicine Journal.
The researchers examined data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System from 1996 to 2008. In that period, 57,491 collisions in the nation were submitted.
The study used the World Health Organization definition of obese , which is a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher ....Read More

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