Table 1.

Clinical and demographic characteristics of study population

	TBI patients	Hypothermia	Normothermia	Controls
Number	47	23 (49)	24 (51)	9
Age, years	7.40 ± 4.99	7.04 ± 5.00	7.22 ± 5.08	4.50 ± 4.58
Female gender	18 (38)	8 (35)	10 (42)	1 (13)
Mechanism
Nonaccidental TBI	11 (23)	5 (22)	6 (25)
Fall	5 (11)	3 (13)	2 (8)
MVI	14 (30)	8 (35)	6 (25)
Pedestrian struck by auto	5 (11)	2 (9)	3 (13)
Other	12 (25)	5 (22)	7 (29)
Initial GCS score
3–4	9 (19)	5 (22)	4 (17)
5–8	30 (64)	15 (65)	15 (62)
>8	8 (17)	3 (13)	5 (21)
GOS score
1-2	23 (64)	13 (65)	10 (62)
3-5	13 (36)	7 (35)	6 (38)

Values are means ± SD, percentages in parentheses. MVI = Motor vehicle injury.