Head Injuries Triple The Risk Of Premature Death

Severe head injuries-such as that suffered by Michael Schumacher recently-triple the risk of premature death, even several years after the incident, according to a new British-Swedish scientific research. The main causes of premature death are suicide and fatal young-this-time injuries, eg in a car accident or fall due. But even the less serious head injuries increase the risk of premature death, according to the survey.

Thus, people who once suffered concussion, eg during a sport like football, are twice as likely to die prematurely compared with the general population. Road, falls and sports are the main causes of head injuries. At greatest risk are those with a history of psychiatric disorder before the initial trauma, and injury often exacerbates preexisting problem and blurs the clarity of mind, and therefore more easily fall victims of poor judgment or miscalculation, resulting in new fatal injuries .

Researchers at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford , from University College London and the medical Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, led by Dr Sina Feizel, made ​​after publication in the journal Psychiatry of the American Medical Association "JAMA Psychiatry", in accordance with the BBC, looked at data on more than 2 million people, which covered a wide period of 40 years (from 1969 to 2009). Each year, more than one million people in Europe and 1.7 million in the U.S. admitted to a hospital because head injury, which has caused a skull fracture, internal bleeding, loss of consciousness for more than an hour or a combination of the above. Several, however, survive the initial period of risk, estimated at six months after their injury. Evidence shows that, without a prior brain injury, 0.2% of people die prematurely before the age of 56 .

However, the rate of premature deaths tripled (0.6%) if elapsed brain trauma and ejected at 4% for persons, other than trauma, have a mental disorder, such as depression. Researchers say the brain injuries tend to cause permanent damage to neural networks and thereby adversely affect the ability of former victims to properly handle the various situations faced then, for example when driving.

Higher Risk Of Death From Heart Attacks

The researchers note that the difference in mortality rate of 5% stems mainly from the fact that evenings and weekends are usually staffed hospitals with less experience and reduced medical staff.

People who suffer acute myocardial infarction are at greater risk of death if the incident happened any night of the week or during the weekend, according to a major international scientific research, the findings gathered 48 other studies involving 1.9 million patients in the U.S. , Europe and Canada. 's findings show that those with myocardial introduced the evening or during the weekend are on average 5% higher mortality (either in the hospital or within a month of discharge them) in relation to who introduced a weekday during the morning hours.

Scholars point out that the difference stems mainly from the fact that evenings and weekends are usually staffed hospitals with less experience and reduced medical staff. They point out that the major challenge for a hospital is to provide high quality services throughout the 24 hours. During the nights and weekends, generally takes more time to tackle an emergency in a hospital, which may ultimately cost the life of a patient with infarction, unlike someone entering full time and full operation of the hospital.

How To Identify The Patient's Anorexia Nervosa?

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