RealFeedApp About 27% of former players had dementia, the analysis found
A study found that three-quarters of professional football players who died over 15 years had signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Only about 27% of the former players in the analysis were estimated to have dementia.
- Field
- the brain and neuroscience
- What they did
- Researchers estimated that 75% of professional football players who died over a 15-year span had signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
- Why it matters
- This is the highest estimate to date, and the figure is three times higher than in a previous study by the same group.
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