{"id":7439,"date":"2023-08-18T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7439"},"modified":"2023-08-17T19:38:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:38:29","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-children-and-adolescents-aged-%e2%89%a417-years-who-had-ever-received-a-diagnosis-of-concussion-or-brain-injury-by-sex-and-age-group-national-health-interview-surv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/08\/18\/7439\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Children and Adolescents Aged \u226417 Years Who Had Ever Received a Diagnosis of Concussion or Brain Injury, by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7233a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7233a5-F.gif?_=96871\" width=\"496\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2022, 2.3 million (3.2%) children and adolescents aged \u226417 years had ever received a diagnosis of a concussion or brain injury.<\/p>\n<p>Diagnosis of a concussion or brain injury increased with age, from 1.0% among those aged 0\u20135 years to 2.3% among those aged 6\u201311 years, and 5.9% among those aged 12\u201317 years.<\/p>\n<p>Percentages were higher for boys than girls overall (3.7% versus 2.6%), among those aged 6\u201311 years (3.0% versus 1.6%), and those aged 12\u201317 years (6.9% versus 4.9%) but were similar by sex among those aged 0\u20135 years (1.0% versus 1.1%).<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2022.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, 2.3 million (3.2%) children and adolescents aged \u226417 years had ever received a diagnosis of a concussion or brain injury. Diagnosis of a concussion or brain injury increased with age, from 1.0% among those aged 0\u20135 years to 2.3% among those aged 6\u201311 years, and 5.9% among those aged 12\u201317 years. Percentages were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53770,14289,62257,63673,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7439\/revisions\/7440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}