And penetrating traumatic brain injury -- where an object punctures the skull and enters the brain -- was associated with a tripled risk of brain
While this was observed only in the military, civilians might be expected to run similar risks from brain injuries, researchers said. “Traumatic brain injury is not only common in the military, but also in the general population as well,” said lead researcher Dr. Ian Stewart, an Air Force colonel and professor of medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
“While these results may not be generalizable to the population at large, given that military cohorts are different from the general population in many ways, it is possible that more severe TBI increases risk in the civilian population as well,” Stewart added in a university news release.The study relied on traumatic brain injury data collected by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, in which service members were tracked more than seven years, on average.
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