Football is one of America’s well-treasured pastimes. Research out today, however, highlights the hidden neurological costs that many professional football players have had to pay.
Scientists at Boston University, the Mayo Clinic, and others examined the medical records of hundreds of recently deceased former football players who donated their brains to science. Nearly all donors had died with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), they found, while a majority were also diagnosed with dementia. Roughly a quarter of all former football players who died between 2016 and 2021 at minimum had CTE, though the likelihood could be even higher, the…
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