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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2019 Jul-Aug;34(4):E1–E10. doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000465

Table 4:

Percent of Cases Developing the 10 Most Frequent Medical Comorbidities in the Decade after TBI by Age Cohort

Same Time / After TBI

< 50 Years at 10 Year FU
≥ 50 Years at 10 Year FU
≥ 50 vs. < 50 Years Comparison
X / N Percent 95% CI X / N Percent 95% CI OR 95% CI p-value
Back Pain 47/209 22.5 (16.8, 28.2) 40/190 21.1 (15.2, 26.9) 0.92 (0.57, 1.48) 0.7288
Depression 48/207 23.2 (17.4, 29.0) 35/189 18.5 (12.9, 24.1) 0.75 (0.46, 1.23) 0.2549
Hypertension 32/207 15.5 (10.5, 20.4) 47/187 25.1 (18.9, 31.4) 1.84 (1.11, 3.03) 0.0175
Anxiety 40/208 19.2 (13.8, 24.6) 38/190 20.0 (14.3, 25.7) 1.05 (0.64, 1.72) 0.8469
Fractures (Hip/Wrist/Spine) 41/209 19.6 (14.2, 25.0) 32/191 16.8 (11.4, 22.1) 0.82 (0.49, 1.37) 0.4594
High Blood Cholesterol 26/210 12.4 (7.9, 16.9) 42/188 22.3 (16.3, 28.3) 2.04 (1.19, 3.48) 0.0092
Sleep Disorder 20/210 9.5 (5.5, 13.5) 27/190 14.2 (2.5, 9.2) 1.57 (0.85, 2.91) 0.1485
Panic Attacks 33/208 15.9 (10.9, 20.9) 11/189 5.8 (2.5, 9.2) 0.33 (1.16, 0.67) 0.0022
Osteoarthritis 14/210 6.7 (3.3, 10.1) 24/190 12.6 (7.9, 17.4) 2.02 (1.01, 4.04) 0.0454
Diabetes 9/211 4.3 (1.5, 7.0) 26/191 13.6 (8.7, 18.5) 3.54 (1.61, 7.76) 0.0016

X = number of patients reporting comorbidity, N = total number of patients with and without the comorbidity; CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio