{"id":6230,"date":"2021-12-01T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6230"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:23:22","slug":"concussions-and-brain-injuries-in-children-united-states-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/12\/01\/6230\/","title":{"rendered":"Concussions and Brain Injuries in Children: United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db423.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/db423_fig1.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6234\" width=\"234\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A new NCHS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db423.htm\">report<\/a> presents national estimates of lifetime symptomatology and health care professional diagnoses of concussions or brain injuries as reported by a knowledgeable adult, usually a parent, in children aged 0\u201317 years using data from the 2020 National Health Interview Survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>In 2020, 6.8% of children aged 17 years and under had ever had symptoms of a concussion or brain injury.<\/li><li>Non-Hispanic White children were more likely than children of other race and Hispanic-origin groups to have ever had symptoms of a concussion or brain injury.<\/li><li>The percentage of children aged 17 years and under who had ever had a diagnosis of a concussion or brain injury by a health care provider&nbsp;was 3.9%.<\/li><li>Compared with their peers, boys (4.7%) and&nbsp;non-Hispanic&nbsp;White children (5.2%) were more likely to have ever had a diagnosis of a concussion or brain injury.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new NCHS report presents national estimates of lifetime symptomatology and health care professional diagnoses of concussions or brain injuries as reported by a knowledgeable adult, usually a parent, in children aged 0\u201317 years using data from the 2020 National Health Interview Survey. Key Findings: In 2020, 6.8% of children aged 17 years and under<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14289,62257,62268,20939,53746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230"}],"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=6230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}