TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Age-specific injury risk curves for distributed, anterior thoracic loading of various sizes of adults based on sternal deflections
JO  - Stapp car crash journal
A1  - Mertz, Harold J.
A1  - Prasad, Priya
A1  - Dalmotas, Dainius J.
A1  - Irwin, Annette L.
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
VL  - 60
IS  - 
N2  - Injury Risk Curves are developed from cadaver data for sternal deflections produced by anterior, distributed chest loads for a 25, 45, 55, 65 and 75 year-old Small Female, Mid-Size Male and Large Male based on the variations of bone strengths with age. These curves show that the risk of AIS ≥ 3 thoracic injury increases with the age of the person. This observation is consistent with NASS data of frontal accidents which shows that older unbelted drivers have a higher risk of AIS ≥ 3 chest injury than younger drivers.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1532-8546
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -