Injury crashes and the relationship with disease causing excessive daytime sleepiness

Objective The objective of this study was to understand the relationship between some most common diseases that are known contribute excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and traffic injury crashes. Specific focus on disease crash type (single-vehicle or multiple-vehicle crash) severity.Methods This registry-based considered all passenger car drivers involved in a Sweden 2011 2016 who were 40 years older at time (n = 54,090). For each crash-involved driver, selected medical diagnoses registered from 1997 until day before extracted National Patient Register. assigned 1 4 groups, depending prior diseases: sleep apnea (SA; group 1, n 2,165), disorders (group 2, 724), Parkinson’s epilepsy 3, 645) reference 4, 50,556). Logistic regression analysis compared single-vehicle crashes with moderately/severely injured slightly/uninjured drivers.Results Drivers EDS-related (groups 1–3) had higher probability than group. sizeable effect found for Parkinson’s/epilepsy an odds ratio (OR) 2.5 (confidence interval [CI], 2.1–3.0). crashes, moderate/severe other (OR 1.5; CI, 1.0–2.2) 1.6; 1.1–2.3) group.Conclusions has made first steps toward understanding EDS Having Parkinson’s/epilepsy, particular, elevated crash. A seen as indicative causing crash; thus, having could be interpreted risk factor involvement. well disorders, also related more severe outcomes given occurred. not identified