A nationwide study of incidence and mortality due to traumatic brain injury in Ecuador (2004–2016)

E Ortiz-Prado, G Mascialino, C Paz… - …, 2020 - karger.com
Objective: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a public health problem worldwide. Information
regarding TBI from low-and middle-income countries is scarce. The objectives of this study …

Reducing the incidence and mortality of traumatic brain injury in Latin America

L Rivera-Lara, W Videtta, E Calvillo… - European journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents a considerable portion of the global injury burden.
The incidence of TBI will continue to increase in view of an increase in population density …

Traumatic brain injury in Latin America and the Caribbean: a call for research

P Puvanachandra, AA Hyder - Salud publica de Mexico, 2008 - medigraphic.com
S4 salud pública de méxico/vol. 50, suplemento 1 de 2008 were found to be the main cause
of TBI in children less than three years, and RTIs prevailed as the leading cause of TBI …

Traumatic brain injury epidemiology in Brazil

CER de Almeida, JL de Sousa Filho, JC Dourado… - World neurosurgery, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) stands out as a grave social and economic
problem. Emerging countries possess few epidemiologic studies on the range and impact of …

Incidence, demographics, and outcome of traumatic brain injury in the Middle East: a systematic review

A El-Menyar, A Mekkodathil, H Al-Thani, R Consunji… - World neurosurgery, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious global public health challenge. We
aimed to assess the pattern of TBI in the Middle East, as reported in the last decade …

Prevalence and altered causes of traumatic brain injury in China: a nationwide survey in 2013

D Sun, B Jiang, X Ru, H Sun, J Fu, S Wu, L Wang… - …, 2020 - karger.com
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability
annually worldwide. However, the epidemiology of TBI had not been established in China …

[HTML][HTML] The epidemiology of traumatic brain injury due to traffic accidents in Latin America: a narrative review

J Dunne, GA Quiñones-Ossa, EG Still… - … of neurosciences in …, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
Objective Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are devastating injuries and represent a major
cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Traffic accidents are one of the main causes …

Traumatic brain injury mortality and correlates in low-and middle-income countries: a meta-epidemiological study

A Naik, MM Bederson, D Detchou… - …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: It is estimated that up to 69 million people per year experience traumatic
brain injury (TBI) with the highest prevalence found in low-and middle-income countries …

[HTML][HTML] Traumatic brain injury in Brazil: an epidemiological study and systematic review of the literature

ALG Magalhães, JLVM Barros… - Arquivos de Neuro …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious public health problem worldwide.
Although TBI is common in developing countries, there are few epidemiological studies …

Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury over the world: a systematic review

M Li, Z Zhao, G Yu, J Zhang - General medicine: open access, 2016 - safetylit.org
We identified 60 reports from 29 countries with data on Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
epidemiology in the published literature. Men were at higher risk of TBI than women. The …