Articles Tagged with men are three times more likely to suffer brain injury than women

Older males have a three times higher risk of suffering a traumatic brain injury, mainly in slip and fall accidents.  That information comes from an analysis of 2021 brain injury data which also found that certain racial demographics also have higher rates of brain injury.

The analysis was based on data from the National Vital Statistics System which found that there were approximately 69,473 deaths due to brain injury in 2021.  Men bore the overwhelming brunt of these personal injuries with a majority of persons who suffered fatal brain injuries being adult males above the age of 75.  Men are as much as three times more likely to suffer a fatal traumatic brain injury compared to women.  That makes a lot of sense when you consider that slip and fall accidents are one of the top causes of brain injury in the United States.

The  analysis also found that demographic groups like American Indians or Native Alaskans have a much higher risk of suffering traumatic brain injury  compared to other racial groups, with the two most common causes being suicides and slip and fall accidents  More than 37,000 traumatic brain injury-related wrongful deaths in the analysis were the result of slip and fall accidents, auto accidents, being hit on the head by an object and other such traumatic incidents.