NFL players and head injuries - The Orange Mane

loborugger · 09-30-2009, 07:06 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/sp...ntia.html?_r=1

A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for men ages 30 through 49.

interesting article.

09-30-2009, 07:06 AM	#1
loborugger lost in the ether Did we finally get a FB??? Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The 'cuse Posts: 5,783 Adopt-a-Bronco: Peyton Hillis	NFL players and head injuries http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/sp...ntia.html?_r=1 A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for men ages 30 through 49. interesting article.

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