But about 1 in 3 football players, or 34%, who are still alive have perceived CTE, according to a study in JAMA Neurology. Those players were also 5 times as likely to report suicidal thoughts than those who didn’t think they had CTE. Editorial Perceived CTE and Suicidality—Is Per...
CTE is a real risk for football playersLes Carpenter
Former professional American football players who have medical and mental health conditions including depression, anxiety or sleep apnea are more likely to receive an unverified diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, compared to those without those conditions, report researchers from the Un...
Although repeated physical trauma seems to be a prerequisite for the development of CTE, many athletes, including boxers and American football players, never develop the disease. So obviously, other factors are involved as well, some may be environmental and some may be genetic (4). In theory,...
A post mortem study of 180 former football players who donated their brains supports previous findings that a greater amount of phosphorylated tau protein in the brain is associated with dementia and duration of play. The research advances the field with findings of a direct association between seve...
The degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) can only be diagnosed through autopsies. Evidence has been seen in deceased professional football and hockey players, student athletes, combat soldiers and others who have suffered head trauma. ...
The published research was a large retrospective cohort study looking at former professional Scottish football (soccer) players: 7676 cases were identified from databases of Scottish football players and 23,028 controls (3:1) from the ‘general population’ were identified using a Scottish ‘Community...
But while most research has focused on the risk of brain damage among professional athletes, the latest analysis reveals “that CTE can begin very early, as early as 17 years, and that it can develop in amateur soccer, rugby, ice hockey and football players, and amateur wrestlers,” McKee ...
A third of former professional players believe they have football-related brain damage, according to the largest study of its kind involving more than 2,000 players who were in the NFL between 1960 and 2020. "Most had cognitive symptoms," said Rachel Grashow, who conducted the research for ...
In a sample of 266 deceased former amateur andprofessional football players, the study found that the risk of developing CTE increased by 30 percent per year played, meaning that for each 2.6 additional years of football played, the odds of developing CTE doubled. Among those with CTE, for ...