{"id":2811,"date":"2015-05-27T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2015-05-27T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T18:30:09","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-traumatic-brain-injury-tbi-related-deaths-by-underlying-cause-and-age-group-united-states-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/05\/27\/2811\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)\u2013Related Deaths by Underlying Cause and Age Group \u2014 United States, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6419a9.htm?s_cid=mm6419a9_e\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/figures\/m6419qsf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a>The causes of injury that result in TBI-related deaths vary by age group. In 2013, 77% of the TBI-related deaths among infants aged &lt;1 year were from causes other than transportation, firearms, or falls, and primarily resulted from assault and maltreatment.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation accounted for 53% of the TBI-related deaths among children aged 1\u201314 years. Firearm-related injuries accounted for 50% and 52% of the TBI-related deaths for persons aged 15\u201324 and 25\u201364 years, respectively. Most of the firearm-related TBI deaths in these two age groups were suicides (62% and 83%, respectively).<\/p>\n<p>The majority (61%) of TBI-related deaths for those aged \u226565 years resulted from falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The causes of injury that result in TBI-related deaths vary by age group. In 2013, 77% of the TBI-related deaths among infants aged &lt;1 year were from causes other than transportation, firearms, or falls, and primarily resulted from assault and maltreatment. Transportation accounted for 53% of the TBI-related deaths among children aged 1\u201314 years. Firearm-related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20939],"tags":[63976,64057],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}