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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2012 Sep-Oct;27(5):349–360. doi: 10.1097/HTR.0b013e318268db94

Table 2.

TBI and Injury Event Exposures, In Past Year Combat Deployment Sample (N= 7,155), weighted percentages a,b

Injury Event Exposurec Sample N (% and Population Estimates) Self-Report TBI Level of those with Exposure
No TBI Altered Consciousness LOC< 1 Minute LOC 1+ Minutes Total of Exposure Group
Blast/explosion exposure only 653 (9.7%, 35,948) 567 (83.0%) 57 (11.9%) 21 (3.6%) 8 (1.5%) 100%
Other injury etiologies onlyd 740 (9.8%, 40,737) 562 (75.2%) 109 (14.2%) 41 (6.0%) 28 (4.7%) 100%
Blast/explosion AND other injury etiologiesd 1,107 (19.8%, 60,941) 613 (50.7%) 257 (25.1%) 124 (12.9%) 113 (11.3%) 100%
Subtotal with Exposure (%and Population Estimates) N = 2,500
39.4%, (137,625)
N = 1,742 (86.1%) 95,897 N = 423 (7.5%) 23,286 N = 186 (3.5%) 10,239 N = 149 (2.8%) 8,202 100%
No exposure 4,655e (60.6%, 256,259)
Total Population Estimate 7,155 (100%, 393,884)

Abbreviations: LOC, loss of consciousness

a

The table shows unweighted N’s and weighted percentages. Sums may not add to 100% due to rounding.

b

Results were significant at the p≤.0001 level. The p-value was calculated with the use of a design-based F test.

c

Population estimates for a subpopulation of active duty service members returning from a combat deployment in the past year (population N is 393,884).

d

Vehicular accident/crash, fragments wound above the shoulders, bullet wound above the shoulders, falls, and ‘other’ self-reported events.

e

396 service members in the sample had missing injury event data. These missing data were imputed to become zeros (rather than missing data), which decreases the weighted percentages of those with TBI slightly.