Table 1.

Demographic Data for Children with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury and Controls

	TBI	Control
N
All	34	8
≤ 4y	12 (35.3)	2 (25)
5–18y	22 (64.7)	6 (75)
Age, years	7.68 ± 2.18	10.69 ± 0.89
Male	23 (67.6)	6 (75)
Race
Caucasian	31 (91.2)
African American	1 (2.9)
Other	2 (5.9)
GCS	7 [3–14]
Mechanism of injury
MVA	10 (29.4)
Pedestrian vs Vehicle	4 (11.8)
Abusive Head Trauma	6 (17.6)
Fall	5 (14.7)
Other	9 (26.5)
GOS
5 (good)	16 (47.1)
4 (moderate disability)	11 (32.4)
3 (severe disability)	3 (8.8)
2 (vegetative)	0 (0)
1 (death)	4 (11.8)

Data presented as mean ± SE, n (%), median[range] as appropriate