Table 4.
Outcomes by the severity of injury for TBI cohort (age and sex interaction).
| Moderate head injury | Severe head injury | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Mortality | Unfavorable | n | Mortality | Unfavorable | |
| Male | ||||||
| Neonates and infants | 13 | 0 (0) | 1 (7.7) | 12 | 7 (58.3) | 10 (83.3) |
| Toddler | 24 | 0 (0) | 2 (8.3) | 18 | 6 (33.3) | 10 (55.6) |
| Early childhood | 45 | 1 (2.2) | 4 (8.9) | 19 | 5 (26.3) | 9 (47.4) |
| Middle childhood | 43 | 0 (0) | 5 (11.6) | 34 | 9 (26.5) | 19 (55.9) |
| Early adolescence | 65 | 0 (0) | 5 (7.7) | 69 | 14 (20.3) | 35 (50.7) |
| p-value | 0.6579 | 0.9683 | 0.0940 | 0.3043 | ||
| Female | ||||||
| Neonates and infants | 11 | 0 (0) | 3 (27.3) | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Toddler | 12 | 0 (0) | 2 (16.7) | 14 | 3 (21.4) | 7 (50.0) |
| Early childhood | 22 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 11 | 1 (9.1) | 7 (63.6) |
| Middle childhood | 31 | 0 (0) | 2 (6.5) | 24 | 5 (20.8) | 12 (50.0) |
| Early adolescence | 32 | 0 (0) | 3 (9.4) | 21 | 8 (38.1) | 14 (66.7) |
| p-value | 0.9683 | 0.0847 | 0.3372 | 0.6268 | ||
Severe Head Injury: GCS 3-8, Moderate Head Injury: GCS 9-13.
P-values correspond to the association of outcomes by age for males and females separately for each severity group.