{"id":7018,"date":"2020-10-16T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5251"},"modified":"2020-10-16T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T14:00:16","slug":"quickstats-rate-of-unintentional-traumatic-brain-injury-tbi-related-deaths-among-persons-aged-24-years-and-under-by-age-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/10\/16\/7018\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Rate of Unintentional Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)\u2013Related Deaths Among Persons Aged 24 Years and Under, by Age Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6941a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6941a5-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 1999 to 2018, death rates for unintentional TBI among persons aged 24 years and under declined across all age groups.<\/p>\n<p>During the 20-year period, TBI-related death rates declined from 3.7 per 100,000 to 1.5 among children aged 0\u20134 years, from 3.0 to 0.9 for children and adolescents aged 5\u201314 years, from 14.7 to 4.4 for adolescents and young adults aged 15\u201319 years, and from 14.1 to 6.9 for young adults aged 20\u201324 years.<\/p>\n<p>For most of the period, rates were highest for persons aged 20\u201324 years followed by those aged 15\u201319, 0\u20134, and 5\u201314 years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/deaths.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6941a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6941a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1999 to 2018, death rates for unintentional TBI among persons aged 24 years and under declined across all age groups. During the 20-year period, TBI-related death rates declined from 3.7 per 100,000 to 1.5 among children aged 0\u20134 years, from 3.0 to 0.9 for children and adolescents aged 5\u201314 years, from 14.7 to 4.4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14289,49481,20939,47315,47317,53752,63784,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018"}],"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=7018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}