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JAMA. 2007;298:1271-1272.

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MMWR. 2007;56:733-737

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Each year in the United States, an estimated 38 million children and adolescents participate in organized sports,¹ and approximately 170 million adults participate in some type of physical activity not related to work.² The health benefits of these activities are tempered by the risk for injury, including traumatic brain injury (TBI). CDC estimates that 1.1 million persons with TBIs are treated and released from U.S. hospital emergency departments (EDs) each year, and an additional 235,000 are hospitalized for these injuries.³ TBIs can result in long-term, negative health effects (e.g., memory loss and behavioral changes).³ To characterize sports- and recreation-related (SR-related) TBIs among patients treated in U.S. hospital EDs, CDC analyzed data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System–All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP) for the period 2001-2005. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicated that an estimated 207,830 patients with nonfatal SR-related . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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