Table 3.

Prevalence of posterior pituitary dysfunction following TBI

Study	n	GCS	Time from injury	% of posterior hypopituitarism (cranial diabetes insipidus)
<1 month
Hannon et al 50	100	<14	Median 6 days	51
Hadjizacharia et al 21	436	3–15	Mean 1.2 days	15
Agha et al 57	50	<14	1–3 days	26
Agha et al 55	102	<14	Acute	21.6
Agha et al 56	50	<14	Median 12 days	26
Boughey et al 54	–	–	Mean 1.5 days	2.9
>1 month
Bavisetty et al 58	70	Median 7	6–9 months	1.4
Agha et al 57	50	<14	6 months	8
			12 months	6
Agha et al 55	102	<14	Median 17 months	6.9
Aimaretti et al 24	100	3–15	3 months	4

GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; TBI, traumatic brain injury.