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How Many People Have TBI?


Data are critical to understand traumatic brain injury (TBI) as an important public health problem. This data can help inform TBI prevention strategies, identify research and education priorities, and support the need for services among those living with a TBI

National TBI Estimates Each year, an estimated 1.7 million people sustain a TBI annually. Of them:
•52,000 die,

•275,000 are hospitalized, and

•1.365 million, nearly 80%, are treated and released from an emergency department.
TBI is a contributing factor to a third (30.5%) of all injury-related deaths in the United States.1
About 75% of TBIs that occur each year are concussions or other forms of mild TBI.2
*The number of people with TBI who are not seen in an emergency department or who receive no care is unknown.

TBI by Age

•Children aged 0 to 4 years, older adolescents aged 15 to 19 years, and adults aged 65 years and older are most likely to sustain a TBI.
•Almost half a million (473,947) emergency department visits for TBI are made annually by children aged 0 to 14 years.
•Adults aged 75 years and older have the highest rates of TBI-related hospitalization and death.

TBI by Gender
•In every age group, TBI rates are higher for males than for females
•Males aged 0 to 4 years have the highest rates of TBI-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths.




http://www.cdc.gov/TraumaticBrainInjury/statistics.html (2010)