Alcohol, Central Nervous System Injury, and Time to Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes

Alcohol, Central Nervous System Injury, and Time to Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes

Objectives: Motor vehicle crash (MVC) studies have found that alcohol (ALC) is associated with increased mortality and decreased time to death P O ) . Clinical and experimental data suggest that ALC potentiates central nervous system injury (CNSI). We hypothesize that ALC-intoxicated, MVC fatalities with CNSl are more likely to die in the immediate postinjury period than are sober victims with ...

Language, income, education, and alcohol-related fatal motor vehicle crashes.

This paper investigates the role of race/ethnicity, language skills (a proxy for acculturation among Hispanics in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas), income, and education level on alcohol-related fatal motor vehicle crashes. Using the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), we confirmed previous state-based studies showing that high income and education levels have a protective inf...

Central Nervous System Neurotoxicity of Chronic Alcohol Abuse

Predictors of injury among younger and older adults in fatal motor vehicle crashes.

With 2003 Fatality Analysis Reporting System data, we examined relationships among predictors of motor vehicle injury/fatality outcomes for younger (35-54 years) and older (65 years and older) drivers. Using the Precede-Proceed Model of Health Promotion as an organizing framework, we classified variables into person, vehicle and environment domains and conducted a multinomial logistic regressio...

Why does the central nervous system not regenerate after injury?

A major problem for neuroscientists and clinicians is why the central nervous system shows ineffective regeneration after injury. Injured peripheral nerve fibers reform their connections, whereas those in injured spinal cord never re-grow. Insights into the mechanisms for repair and restoration of function after spinal cord injury have been obtained by experiments showing that injured nerve cel...