A new study offers more evidence that America’s biggest sport produces life-altering head trauma. The NFL will never turn itself off, so it’s on fans to do so
As a new NFL season begins this Wednesday, the danger of America’s most-watched sport has never been more clear.
A new and widely circulated study published in the British Journal of Medicine examined the donated brains of former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 and compared them with the overall number of players who died during that period. Of the 235 donated brains in that period, 215 had evidence of the degenerative brain condition chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). That group of 215 comprised 24.5% of the former players who died during that period in total. Given the finding, the study’s authors estimate that the prevalence of CTE among players who died in that period was at minimum 24.5% to a maximum of 97.7%, with the actual rate likely somewhere in between.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick. Derek Silva is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at King’s University College at Western University.
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张明远
通过九游在线入口，我随时随地都能用手机观看NBA比赛，画面一点不卡顿。互动社区里还能和球友讨论战术，体验非常好。
回复阿斯兰
九游平台网站的电子竞技直播覆盖了英雄联盟、DOTA2等主流项目，赛事资讯更新很及时。我经常在电脑和平板之间切换，体验始终如一。
回复斯梅特
注册九游体育地址后，发现平台不仅直播内容丰富，还有专业的赛事分析和数据统计。对于喜欢研究比赛的朋友来说，这里就是宝藏。
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