Expensive Bike Helmets

[Andy in Germany]

"A meta-analysis has been conducted of the effects of bicycle helmets on serious head injury and other injuries among crash involved cyclists. 179 effect estimates from 55 studies from 1989-2017 are included in the meta-analysis. The use of bicycle helmets was found to reduce head injury by 48%, serious head injury by 60%, traumatic brain injury by 53%, face injury by 23%, and the total number of killed or seriously injured cyclists by 34%. Bicycle helmets were not found to have any statistically significant effect on cervical spine injury. There is no indication that the results from bicycle helmet studies are affected by a lack of control for confounding variables, time trend bias or publication bias."

Can you provide the link to that? I recently checked, and the only study found was the deeply flawed one from the 90's, that was so bad at least one author has since distanced themselves from the findings. I'm not sure how you can make such bold claims as that without a control group.

 

[Happy_Days]

Can you provide the link to that?

Here is the link to the meta-analysis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29677686/