Former Scottish professional soccer players had more than three times the risk of death from neurodegenerative diseases relative to the general population, the retrospective FIELD study showed.
Mortality with neurodegenerative disease listed as the primary cause was 1.7% in 7,700 male former pro athletes versus 0.5% in matched controls, reported Willie Stewart, MB, ChB, PhD, of the University of Glasgow, and co-authors, in the New England Journal of Medicine.
JAMA. 2019;322(16):1537-1538. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.15361
College football players in the United States
endure over 1000 head hits every season. Although many don’t produce symptoms such as dizziness or blurred vision that often accompany frank concussion, these “clinically silent” hits are associated with the same type of brain damage as concussion, according to a recent
Science Advances study.
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work has suggested that participation in American football may be related to later development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)—a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that can only be diagnosed postmortem. The condition likely is
caused in part by repetitive traumatic brain injury (TBI), including concussion, which
accounts for more than 80% of all TBI cases./.../
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