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Traumatic brain injury, mortality among military veterans serving after September 11, 2001

JAMA Network Open

Peer-Reviewed Publication

JAMA Network

What The Study Did: This study of 2.5 million military veterans serving after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks examined the association of traumatic brain injury with mortality and compared mortality rates for this group with rates for the total U.S. population.

Authors: Jeffrey T. Howard, Ph.D., of the University of Texas at San Antonio, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.48150)

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