Listed below are some staggering brain injury statistics based on national estimates. Don't let brain injury victims become just another number - get involved today by becoming a sponsor, becoming a volunteer, donating money, or registering for the hike.
- Every 23 seconds in America a person sustains a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI); and every five minutes one of these people will die and another will become permanently disabled.
- As many Americans die every year from TBI as died in the entire history of the Vietnam War. (Kraus and McArthur, 1996).
- Brain Injury is the leading killer and disabler of this country's children and young adults.
- Research into the control and treatment of TBI receives less than one penny of every Federal dollar spent on medical research.
- Annual Number of New Cases of Traumatic Brain Injury is 8 times greater than the number of new cases of breast cancer.
- Annual Number of New Cases of Traumatic Brain Injury is 34 times greater than the number of new cases of HIV/AIDS.
- There are 3 million persons living with breast cancer and public spending is $295 per person.
- There are 900,000 persons living with HIV/AIDS and public spending is $18,111 per person.
- There are 5.3 million persons living with disability from TBI and public spending is $2.55 per person.
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