Diabetes and Commercial Driving (and other Safety Critical Work)
Diabetes and Commercial Driving (and other Safety Critical Work)
Diabetes and Commercial Driving (and other Safety Critical Work)
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Stork ADM, van Haeften TW, Veneman TF:<br />
<strong>Diabetes</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Driving</strong> (Review).<br />
<strong>Diabetes</strong> Care 29:1942–1949, 2006<br />
• ‘Songer <strong>and</strong> Lave have estimated that if diabetic patients would<br />
be licensed to drive commercial motor vehicles, mild <strong>and</strong><br />
moderate hypoglycemia would increase the amount of accidents<br />
6.1-fold for insulin-dependent diabetic patients <strong>and</strong> 4.1-fold for<br />
non–insulin-dependent diabetic patients, resulting in an additional<br />
42 accidents per year in the U.S.<br />
• The risks of diabetic drivers with a history of severe hypoglycemia<br />
would be increased nearly 20-fold. However, they also estimate<br />
that if these latter diabetic subjects are excluded, the relative risk<br />
drops to 3.7 <strong>and</strong> 2.7, respectively, <strong>and</strong> the number of additional<br />
accidents per year to 20. …The same authors conclude that<br />
given the fact that <strong>other</strong> higher risks are generally accepted (e.g.,<br />
driver’s licenses from the age of 16 years, allowing some unsafe<br />
motorways, etc.), the additional risks from insulin-using<br />
individuals are well within the accepted range of risk.’
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