Traumatic brain injury co-occurs in many psychiatric patients, with risk associated with greater illness severity, older age, and previous brain damage.
Psychiatric disorders commonly occur after physical trauma, including traumatic brain injury (TBI); they may also be an independent risk factor for experiencing a TBI. Researchers examined this relationship further in an analysis of case–control data from Taiwan's national insurance program.
From a randomly selected population of 1 million individuals, 16,635 patients were diagnosed with TBI in 2005–2008. For each patient, four non-TBI controls were selected (66,540 controls). Data on psychiatric diagnosis, sociodemographics, outpatient visits, and medication use were obtained.
Risk for TBI increased with the presence of mental disorders (odds ratio, 1.94), age 70 or older (compared with age 30–39: OR, 1.87), living in more rural than urban a…
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DisclosuresRoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions
Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesNorth American Brain Injury Association (Board Member); National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (Chair of Data Monitoring Safety Board for study of donepezil on cognition after traumatic brain injury)
DisclosuresRoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions
Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesNorth American Brain Injury Association (Board Member); National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (Chair of Data Monitoring Safety Board for study of donepezil on cognition after traumatic brain injury)