* 1.5 million Americans sustain a brain injury every year.
* Each year, 80,000 Americans experience the onset of disability following Traumatic Brain Injury.
* More than 50,000 people die every year as a result of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
* Among those who survive, 80,000 people per year must learn to cope with lifelong losses of function.
* 5.3 Million Americans - 2% of the U.S. population currently live with brain injury disabilities.
* Motor vehicle accidents cause 44% of TBI; falls, 26%; assaults/firearms, 17%; sports/recreation & other, 13%.
* An estimated 200,000 children are hospitalized yearly with brain trauma & 30,000 get permanent disabilities.
* Every year in the U.S., 50,000 children sustain bicycle-related brain injuries; of those, over 400 die.
* Males are twice as likely to sustain a brain injury than females & young men between the ages of 15-24 have the highest rate of injury.
* Every year, 50,000 Americans will die as a result of a traumatic brain injury.
*In the time it took you to read this, two or more Americans sustained a traumatic brain injury.
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Incidence & Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) estimate that 100 out of 100,000 people in the United States suffer TBI each year & approximately 52,000 die.
Estimates of the number of people who have survived a TBI range from 2.5 million to 6.5 million.
The range is broad because mild TBI often goes unreported. The cost of TBI in the United States is estimated at $48.3 billion annually: $31.7 billion in hospitalization costs & another $16.6 billion in costs associated with fatalities.
The CDC estimates the total cost of acute care & rehabilitation for TBI victims in the United States is $9 billion to $10 billion per year, not including indirect costs to families & society (e.g., lost earnings, work time, & productivity for family, caregivers, and employers, or the costs associated with providing social services).
It is estimated that over a lifetime, it can cost between $600,000 and $1,875,000 to care for a survivor of severe TBI.
(end of report from Indiana Neuroscience Assoc., Indianapolis, IN.) ##