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From: Peri-injury symptomatology as predictors of brain computed tomography (CT) scan abnormalities in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)

Fig. 5

Figure 5: Violin plot depicting the relationship between associated vomiting, age, sex, against the outcome of abnormal head CT. The median age of patients with or without associative vomiting with abnormal CT and is around the age of 50. There was a higher concentration of vomiting and abnormal head CT in the younger and older age groups compared to the middle-aged group. For patients with associated vomiting, more men had an abnormal CT scan than, suggesting that vomiting is a better indicator of an abnormal head CT scan in men rather than women

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