TBI Epidemiology
TBI is a major public health problem, especially among males ages 15 to 24, and among elderly people of both sexes 75 years and older. Children aged 5 and younger are also at high risk for TBI. Males account for two thirds of childhood and adolescent head trauma patients.
Each year in the United States:
approximately 1 million head-injured people are treated in hospital emergency rooms,
approximately 270,000 people experience a moderate or severe TBI,
approximately 60,000 new cases of epilepsy occur as a result of head trauma,
approximately 50,000 people die from head injury,
approximately 230,000 people are hospitalized for TBI and survive,
and approximately 80,000 of these survivors live with significant disabilities as a result.
