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This type of brain injury is an insult to the brain, not of a degenerative or congenital nature but caused by external physical force. | Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) |
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Injury that has occurred after birth and is NOT hereditary, congenital or degenerative. The injury commonly results in a change in neuronal activity, which affects the physical integrity OR the metabolic activity OR the functional ability of the cell. | Aquired Brain injury (ABI) - This term does NOT refer to brain injuries induced by birth trauma |
THis is a branch of medical science that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of a disease within a population.....-ology (study of..) | Epidemiology |
THis term refers to the number of cases of a disease PRESENT during a paricular interval of time. it is usually expressed as a rate. | PRevalence |
This term refers to the number of cases having their ONSET during a given period of time. usually expressed as a rate. It is a measure of morbidity that occurs within that given time period. | Incidence |
This term refers to the ongoing systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data used to MONITOR a health event | Surveillance |
AFter sustaining a FIRST TBI, what happens to likelihood that an individual will incur a second TBI | Likelihood of a second TBI is 2-3 Times GReater after the first TBI, than before the injury occurred. |
AFter sustaining a second TBI, what happens to the likelihood of acquiring a third? | Likelihood is 8X greater than prior to the first injury. |
How does sex (gender) factor into the epidemiology of TBI? | Males are far more likly to sustain TBI than females. In addition, males had higher rates of Hospitalization, ED visits and deaths related to TBI |
What age groups have the highest incidence of TBI? | Historically, the age group has been 15-24 years of age. however, according to the 2006 report released by the CDC, the age group with the highest incidence was 0-4 years of age at 1121 per 100,00... ages 15-19 showed 814 per 100,000 |