People who are obese or overweight face a much higher risk of dying in a car collision compared with people of normal weight, say researchers in a recent study. The cause could be that safety in cars is engineered for people of normal weight, not for the obese, they said. Transport safety scientists Thomas Rice of the University of California at Berkeley and Motao Zhu of the University of West Virginia delved into a US databank on road accidents, ...Tuesday 22 January 2013
Study Says Obese Likelier to Die in Car Accidents
People who are obese or overweight face a much higher risk of dying in a car collision compared with people of normal weight, say researchers in a recent study. The cause could be that safety in cars is engineered for people of normal weight, not for the obese, they said. Transport safety scientists Thomas Rice of the University of California at Berkeley and Motao Zhu of the University of West Virginia delved into a US databank on road accidents, ...
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