Citation

McCarroll JE, Gunderson C. Neuroepidemiology 1990; 9(6): 296-305.

Affiliation

Department of Military Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Karger Publishers)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2096313

Abstract

Incidence rates of hospitalized head injury cases in the US Army were calculated by age, race, and sex. Skull fractures and intracranial diagnoses were found almost exclusively in males. For concussion, white males were at about 1.5 times greater risk compared to black males, and white females were at about 2 to greater than 3 times the risk compared to black females. For other intracranial injury, males were at 1.25 to about 2 times increased risk compared to females, white males were at about 1.5 times risk compared to black males, and white females were at 1.5-2 times greater risk compared to black females. Ten percent of head injury cases had an alcohol-related additional diagnosis and 97% of these were found in males.

Language: en