@article{ref1,
title="Mortality from motorcycle crashes: the baby-boomer cohort effect",
journal="Injury epidemiology",
year="2016",
author="Puac-Polanco, Victor and Keyes, Katherine M. and Li, Guohua",
volume="3",
number="1",
pages="e19-e19",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Motorcyclists are known to be at substantially higher risk per mile traveled of dying from crashes than car occupants. In 2014, motorcycling made up less than 1 % of person-miles traveled but 13 % of the total mortality from motor-vehicle crashes in the United States. We assessed the cohort effect of the baby-boomers (i.e., those born between 1946 and 1964) in motorcycle crash mortality from 1975 to 2014 in the United States. <br><br>METHODS: Using mortality data for motorcycle occupants from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, we performed an age-period-cohort analysis using the multiphase method and the intrinsic estimator method. <br><br>RESULTS: Baby-boomers experienced the highest mortality rates from motorcycle crashes at age 20-24 years and continued to experience excess mortality after age 40 years. After removing the effects of age and period, the estimated mortality risk from motorcycle crashes for baby-boomers was 48 % higher than that of the referent cohort (those born between 1930 and 1934, rate ratio 1.48; 95 % CI: 1.01, 2.18). <br><br>RESULTS from the multiphase method and the intrinsic estimator method were consistent. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The baby-boomers have experienced significantly higher mortality from motorcycle crashes than other birth cohorts. To reduce motorcycle crash mortality, intervention programs specifically tailored for the baby-boomer generation are warranted.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2197-1714",
doi="10.1186/s40621-016-0083-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40621-016-0083-6"
}