{"id":1456,"date":"2014-05-12T13:04:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2014-05-13T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T14:47:13","slug":"pregnancy-increases-risk-of-serious-traffic-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/pregnancy-increases-risk-of-serious-traffic-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnancy increases risk of serious traffic crashes<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1452\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pregnant_Ruthie-Hansen-e1399906955543.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1452\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1452\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pregnant_Ruthie-Hansen-e1399906955543.jpg\" alt=\"Pregnant women are at greater risk of being involved in a car accident. (Credit: Ruthie Hansen, via flickr) \" width=\"485\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pregnant women are at greater risk of being involved in a car accident.<br \/>(Credit: Ruthie Hansen, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ruthieki\/2784650160\/in\/photostream\/\">flickr<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study of 507 262 women who gave birth in Ontario between 2006 and 2011 indicates that pregnant women are at greater risk of being involved in a car accident. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During the 3 years before pregnancy, the group averaged 177 crashes per month, but during the second trimester of pregnancy, this rose to 252 crashes per month, a 42% increase. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors conclude that this phenomenon could be prevented by a small changes in driver behaviour such as avoiding excessive speed, minimizing distractions, signalling turns, obeying stop signs, and always using a seatbelt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/early\/2014\/05\/12\/cmaj.131650\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/344\/6183\/495.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>published in the the <em>Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 12, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Deborah Creatura, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sybil Edmonds, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study of 507 262 women who gave birth in Ontario between 2006 and 2011 indicates that pregnant women are at greater risk of being involved in a car accident. During the 3 years before pregnancy, the group averaged 177 crashes per month, but during the second trimester of pregnancy, this rose to 252 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1378,1377,1376,51,50,1379,476,1285],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-automobiles","tag-cars","tag-driving","tag-health","tag-ontario","tag-pregnancy","tag-public-health","tag-safety"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/pregnant_Ruthie-Hansen-e1399906955543.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-nu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}