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Are professional footballers at risk of developing dementia?

✍ Scribed by Jon Spear

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
401 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
0885-6230

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✦ Synopsis

Football is a contact sport which involves heading the ball and clash of heads, both having the potential for causing repetitive minor head injury. Much of the research on the association between football and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is flawed, but what is available suggests that footballers are more likely to have EEG abnormalities, cortical atrophy and mild neurological abnormalities than controls. It is also known that head injury may precipitate a cascade of events leading to AD pathology by increasing the expression of arnyloid precursor protein and increasing amyloid deposition. It is not known if footballers have an increased risk of dementia, but it is possible that they do. Preventative action could be taken by football's governing bodies to reduce the risk of brain damage as a result of head injury and subsequent development of dementia.

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