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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 102, No. 1: 63-73
Copyright © 1975 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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DRIVING OF MOTOR VEHICLES AS A RISK FACTOR FOR ACUTE HERNIATED LUMBAR INTERVERTEBRAL DISC1

JENNIFER L. KELSEY2 3, and ROBERT J. HARDY2,

2Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510

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Kelsey. J. L. (Yale U. School of Medicine. New Haven. CT 06510) and R. J.Hardy. Driving of motor vehicles as a risk factor for acute herniated lumbar intervertebral disc. Am J Epidemiol 102:63–73, 1975.—In a case-control study of the epidemiology of acute herniated lumbar intervertebral disc in the New Haven, Connecticut, area, it was found that driving of motor vehicles was associated with an increased risk for developing this disease. It was estimated that men who spend half or more of their time on their job driving a motor vehicle are about three times as likely to develop an acute herniated lumbar disc as those who do not hold such jobs. Persons of either sex who said that they drove a car (either away from work or at work) were more likely to develop an acute herniated lumbar disc than those who did not drive at all. These associations between driving and acute herniated lumbar disc could not be attributed to any confounding variables considered in this study.

automobile driving; epidemiologic methods; intervertebral disk displacement; occupations

1Supported by USPHS Grant 5-RO1-AM-15397 from the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases.

3Supported by Career Development Award 1-K04-NS-70502 from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke


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