Demographics and injury severity characteristics of the survivors in the study and non-study groups
| Study group | Non-study group1-150 | |||
| Number of patients | 210 | 77 | ||
| Sex: | ||||
| Male | 151 | 71.9% | 57 | 75.0% |
| Female | 59 | 28.1% | 19 | 25.0% |
| Mean age (y) at injury | 29.5 | (11.0) | 35.4 | (13.4) |
| Mean years of education | 11.8 | (2.3) | 12.1 | (2.4) |
| Ethnicity: | ||||
| White | 175 | 83.3% | 48 | 64.9% |
| African-American | 15 | 7.1% | 12 | 16.2% |
| Hispanic | 14 | 6.7% | 12 | 16.2% |
| Asian/other | 6 | 2.9% | 5 | 2.7% |
| Primary language: | ||||
| English | 201 | 95.7% | 63 | 81.8% |
| Spanish | 9 | 4.3% | 10 | 12.9% |
| Other | 0 | 0.0% | 4 | 5.3% |
| Glasgow coma scale (postresuscitation) | 6.0 | (1.2) | 5.4 | (1.3) |
| Pupil response (post-resuscitation): | ||||
| Normal (bilaterally) | 146 | 70.5% | 45 | 58.4% |
| Abnormal (unilaterally) | 24 | 11.6% | 11 | 14.3% |
| Abnormal (bilaterally) | 37 | 17.8% | 20 | 26.0% |
The numbers in parentheses are SD.
↵1-150 The non-study group includes patients who were too impaired to begin or complete testing, refused testing, etc.