TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1996//
TI  - Alcohol as a risk factor for downhill skiing trauma
JO  - Journal of trauma
A1  - Roine, R.
A1  - Sakki, A.
A1  - Saarelainen, P.
A1  - Pohjola, J.
A1  - Salminen, Simo
SP  - 284
EP  - 287
VL  - 40
IS  - 2
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To assess the role of alcohol in downhill skiing injuries. DESIGN: Comparison of alcohol consumption habits and blood alcohol concentrations of injured skiers to those of randomly selected controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 121 injured skiers and 701 control subjects were interviewed and gave breath samples for the determination of blood alcohol concentration. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Neither mean blood alcohol concentration nor the number of subjects with an intoxicating level of alcohol in blood (> 0.5 g/L; 2.9% of control subjects and 3.3% of the injured patients) differed significantly between the groups. Also, the severity of the injury and the blood alcohol concentration seemed to be independent of each other; all of the most severe traumas occurred in subjects with no detectable alcohol in blood. CONCLUSIONS: Alcohol does not seem to be a major etiological factor in skiing-related injuries.
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SN  - 0022-5282
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -