Risk for All-cause and Traumatic Death in Head Trauma Subjects: A Prospective Population-based Case-control Follow-up Study.

Objective: To investigate long-term mortality for subjects with acute head trauma.

Background: It is not known why long-term mortality after head trauma without traumatic brain injury is elevated.

Methods: All subjects admitted to Oulu University Hospital emergency room in 1999 with an acute head trauma (n = 737) were followed up until February 2014 and compared with age and sex-matched general population controls (n = 2196).

Head Trauma with or without Mild Brain Injury Increases the Risk of Future Traumatic Death: A Controlled Prospective 15-Year Follow-Up Study.

Patients who have recovered from traumatic brain injury (TBI) show an increased risk of premature death. To investigate long-term mortality rates in a population admitted to the hospital for head injury (HI), we conducted a population-based prospective case-control, record-linkage study, All subjects who were living in Northern Ostrobothnia, and who were admitted to Oulu University Hospital in 1999 because of HI (n=737), and 2196 controls matched by age, gender, and residence randomly drawn from the population of Northern Ostrobothnia were included. Death rate and causes of death in HI subjects during 15 years of follow-up was compared with the general population controls.

Predictors of new-onset seizures: a 10-year follow-up of head trauma subjects with and without traumatic brain injury.

Background: It is not known whether alcohol-related head trauma predicts the new-onset seizures, particularly alcohol-related seizures.

Objective: We investigated risk factors for new-onset seizures in a cohort of 739 head trauma subjects.

Methods: All subjects with head trauma attending Oulu University Hospital during 1999, including children and very old people but excluding persons with previous seizures and/or neurological diseases, were enrolled and followed up until the end of 2009.

Mortality of harmful drinkers increased after reduction of alcohol prices in northern Finland: a 10-year follow-up of head trauma subjects.

Objective: Alcohol-related mortality may be influenced by the level of alcohol consumption. We investigated the effect of alcohol price reduction on mortality in a cohort of 827 subjects with head injury.

Methods: We used the Finnish National Hospital Discharge Register to identify all diagnoses recorded during hospital and health center visits for survivors of the index injury during a follow-up of 10 years.