More than 5,000 people went to the ER because they hurt themselves by using a cellphone while walking.
People putting themselves at risk to take selfies has received a lot of media attention. But people are putting their health at risk with far more mundane tasks. The incidence of head and neck injuries related to cellphone use has risen steadily over the past two decades, according to a new study from researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, with major increases observed after 2007, coinciding with the introduction of Apple’s AAPL, +1.93% pioneering iPhone.
The study, published in the latest edition of the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, analyzed a sample of 2,501 reported emergency-department cases — translating to 76,043 estimated weighted cases — collected by the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System between January 1998 and December 2017. The cases were all specifically related to a cellphone.
Also see: Report on fatal Uber crash finds self-driving system could not take into account jaywalking pedestrian Injuries linked to cellphone distraction were most likely to happen among the 13 to 29 crowd. Those younger than 13 were more likely to have a ‘direct mechanical injury.’ Paskhover and his co-authors also found variations across age groups: Injuries linked to cellphone distraction were most likely to happen among the 13-to-29-year-old crowd, while kids younger than 13 were more likely to have a “direct mechanical injury” from a cellphone than to have an injury associated with cellphone use.
But “although the surge in smartphone use coincides with a sharp rise in pedestrian fatalities during the same period, there is a lack of evidence to establish a definitive link,” the report said. “This may be due in part to the inability of police crash investigators to accurately capture momentary distraction caused by smartphones, many of which are mounted on vehicle dashboards and windshields.
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