Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in drivers accounts for approximately 22% of road accidents. Such accidents result in higher mortality than from other causes: 11.4% vs. 5.6%. Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS), a disease that most often involves EDS, has a significantly high prevalence (12%) among more than 40-year-old males. Moreover, it is a risk factor for cardioand cerebro-vascular ...

Objectives: Evidence concerning crash risk for older heavy vehicle drivers is sparse, making it difficult to assess if it is prudent to encourage older drivers to remain in the workforce in a climate of labour shortages. The objective of this study was to estimate annual crash rate ratios of older male heavy vehicle drivers relative to their middle aged peers. Methods: Data utilized in this stu...

results mean age was 41.6 ± 9.2 for the military truck drivers and 43.4 ± 10.9 for commercial truck drivers (p > 0.05). no significant difference between military and commercial drivers was found in terms of driving experience, number of mvcs, binocular va, frequency of color vision defects and cs scores. in contrast, the last ocular examination was significantly earlier in military drivers tha...

driver fatigue is one of the main causes of road accidents. this study aimed to estimate bus driver fatigue through performance measures in a virtual driving environment. the study was conducted on thirty professional male bus drivers participated in a two-hour drive session. the driver subjective fatigue was assessed by fatigue visual analogue scale (f-vas) on 10 min intervals. at the same tim...

This study investigated the discomfort caused by car driving. Discomfort estimates were achieved by self-administered questionnaire, measured by different testing methods, and through the goniometry of principal angles. Data from a total of 200 non-professional drivers who fulfilled the questionnaire was analysed. 118 subjects were analysed by goniometry and 30 drivers were assessed using the O...

A naturalistic experiment used an instrumented bicycle to gather proximity data from overtaking motorists. The relationship between rider position and overtaking proximity was the opposite to that generally believed, such that the further the rider was from the edge of the road, the closer vehicles passed. Additionally, wearing a bicycle helmet led to traffic getting significantly closer when o...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the frequencies of risk factors and the prevalence of coronary heart disease (CAD) in heavy vehicle drivers. METHODS This cross-sectional type study was conducted between November 2004 and September 2006 in heavy vehicle male drivers registered with the Sivas Professional Drivers Association, Sivas, Turkey. From 400 individuals, 200 heavy vehicle male drivers, and 200...

The glutathione-S-transferase genes mainly the GSTM1 and GSTT1 alleles are responsible for synthesis of detoxication enzymes that can remove toxic substances. objective this study is to seek changes in genetic polymorphism motorcycle drivers exposed BTEX. Our group consists 60 including 30 professional non-professional. Blood samples were preleveled from population EDTA tubes DNA was extracted ...