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Adrian Cook Department
of Primary Health Care and General Practice, Imperial College School of
Medicine, London W2 1PG
Correspondence to: A Cook a.d.cook@ic.ac.uk
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As the health and environmental benefits of cycling have
become better appreciated, successive governments in the United Kingdom have encouraged cycle use. Cyclists, however, face considerable risk of
injury, of which head injuries most commonly result in serious adverse
outcomes. Despite evidence from case-control and time trend
studies,
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questions remain about the effectiveness of
helmets, particularly for adults. We examined trends in emergency admissions for cycle injuries to English hospitals between 1991 and
1995, during which time the wearing of helmets increased (Research International Ltd, personal communication).3
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Methods and results |
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All data on admissions to NHS hospitals are entered into the
hospital episode statistics database. We studied the data for the
period 1 April 1991 to 31 March 1995, at which time diagnoses were
classified according to ICD-9 (international classification of
diseases, ninth revision), and extracted all records concerning cyclists, whether their injuries resulted from bicycle accidents or
motor vehicle accidents (codes E8261, E810-E825 fourth digit=6). From
information
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