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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2021 Apr 9;45(5):1051–1064. doi: 10.1111/acer.14605

TABLE 1.

Study participant demographics and blast exposures

Deployed control
Blast exposed
Mean ± SEM, (Range) Mean ± SEM, (Range) p Value
Demographics
 Number of participants, n 34 105
 Age (years) 32.7 ± 1.1 (22–46) 33.6 ±0.8 (21–60) 0.588
 Education (years) 14.2 ± 0.3 (12–18) 14.1 ± 0.2 (11–20) 0.805
 Race, nonwhite, n (%) 9 (26%) 21 (20%) 0.476

Blast exposure
 Estimated number of blast exposures with 19 ± 3 (1 to >100)
 Acute symptoms during military service (lifetime) Median = 7
 Estimated number of mTBI with loss of 0.98 ± 0.2 (0 to 8)
 Consciousness (lifetime) Median = 1
 Time since last blast-related 5.4 ± 0.3 (0.25–13)
 mTBI (years) Median = 5