Anoxic brain injury

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What is anoxic brain injury?

When oxygen levels are significantly low for four minutes or longer, brain cells begin to die and after five minutes permanent anoxic brain injury can occur.

Common symptoms reported by people with anoxic brain injury

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How bad it is
What people are taking for it

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Treatments taken by people for anoxic brain injury

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Compare treatments taken by people with anoxic brain injury

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Who has anoxic brain injury on PatientsLikeMe?

  • 0 new patients joined this month
  • 64 say anoxic brain injury is their primary condition

Age
Age Proportion # of patients
<20 0
20s 2
30s 3
40s 11
50s 8
60s 6
70+ 15

Distribution of sex

Sex
Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 36
Female 40

These charts show data from anoxic brain injury patients who have completed their condition history
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