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Table 5 History of previous concussion and incident concussion rate

From: Epidemiology of sports-related concussion in seven US high school and collegiate sports

Number of previous concussions within the past 24 months

No. of incident concussions

Athlete-exposures

Rate per 100,000 athlete-exposures

95 %CI

CLR

Rate ratio

95 %CI

CLR

None

247

1,228,161

20.1

17.6, 22.6

1.3

1.0

(reference)

––

1

90

174,923

51.5

40.8, 62.1

1.5

2.6

2.0, 3.3

1.6

2 or more

38

34,147

111.3

75.9, 146.7

1.9

5.5

3.9, 7.8

2.0

  1. CI confidence interval, CLR confidence limit ratio