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Traumatic Brain Injury Statistics
TBI Statistics
About 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury each year in the United States.
1.365 million, nearly 80 percent, are treated and released from an emergency department.
TBI is a contributing factor to a third (30.5 percent) of all injury-related deaths in the United States.
About 75 percent of TBIs that occur each year are concussions or other forms of mild traumatic brain injury.
Children birth to 4 years, older adolescents 15 to 19 years, and adults 65 years and older are most likely to sustain a TBI.
Falls are the leading cause of TBI. Rates are highest for children birth to 4 years and for adults 75 years and older.
Motor vehicle-traffic injury is the leading cause of TBI-related death. Rates are highest for adults 20 to 24 years.
Direct medical costs and indirect costs of TBI, such as lost productivity, totaled an estimated $60 billion in the United States in 2000.
In every age group, TBI rates are higher for males than for females.
After the TBI, the risk for a second injury is three times greater.
After the second TBI, the risk for a third injury is eight times greater.
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