Association of Traumatic Brain Injury with All‐cause and Dementia‐related Mortality: the Framingham Heart Study

Shruti Durape, Rebecca Burton, Prajakta S. Joshi, Kurtis Chien‐Young, Eden Price, Eukyung Yhang, Yulin Liu, Ting Fang Alvin Ang, Sherral A. Devine, Ashita S. Gurnani, Douglas I Katz, Yorghos Tripodis, Michael L. Alosco, Rhoda Au, Kristen Dams‐O'Connor, Jesse Mez · 2025

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Shruti Durape and fifteen co-authors link head injury to later mortality in a 2025 study. Traumatic brain injury is known to raise short term death risk. Its long shadow over decades, and over dementia deaths in particular, was murkier. The Framingham Heart Study's long running cohorts supplied the data.

Injury histories were assembled from records, exams, and self reports across lifetimes. Severity followed standard rehabilitation and veterans criteria. Each injured participant was matched with three uninjured peers by age and sex. Dementia diagnoses used established clinical standards. The design isolates injury's association with all cause and dementia related death. Findings speak to lifelong follow up after head trauma. The cohort's span, back to 1948 recruits, gives rare statistical depth.

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CREATORShruti Durape, Rebecca Burton, Prajakta S. Joshi, Kurtis Chien‐Young, Eden Price, Eukyung Yhang, Yulin Liu, Ting Fang Alvin Ang, Sherral A. Devine, Ashita S. Gurnani, Douglas I Katz, Yorghos Tripodis, Michael L. Alosco, Rhoda Au, Kristen Dams‐O'Connor, Jesse Mez
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE3 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11716647

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