{"id":299,"date":"2010-03-19T13:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2010-03-19T13:11:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:11:39","slug":"cdc-says-1-7-million-tbis-in-the-u-s-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/cdc-says-1-7-million-tbis-in-the-u-s-annually.html","title":{"rendered":"CDC Says 1.7 Million TBIs in the U.S. Annually"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week released the results of an extensive study of traumatic brain injury (TBI), and it offers a wealth of data \u2013 some of it disturbing. http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/pressrel\/2010\/r100317.htm<\/a> There are an estimated 1.7 million deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency-department visits related to TBI in the United States each year, according to the CDC report released Wednesday.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cTraumatic Brain Injury in the United States: Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, and Death,\u201d is based on data from 2002 to 2006 and identifies the leading causes of TBI and incidence by age, race, and gender. Here is other landmark information from that report: There were 52,000 TBI-related deaths and 275,000 hospitalizations annually. Almost 1.4 million, or 80 percent, of the people who sustained a TBI were treated and released from an emergency department.<\/p>\r\n

That doesn\u2019t bode well for these people, who may encounter long term, permanent problems stemming from their brain injury down the road.<\/p>\r\n

The CDC report found that TBIs contribute to nearly a third or 30.5 percent of injury-related deaths in the United States.<\/p>\r\n

Here are some other nuggets from the study:<\/p>\r\n