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NFL Study Finds Rate of Dementia In Retired Players 19 Times Higher Then General Population

By Michael Kaplen

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The New York Times has exposed a study commissioned by the NFL which found 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.

Amazingly, the NFL and their "experts" still want to ignore the overwhelming medical evidence which has found a link between concussions and long term brain damage.

You can read the full Times story N.F.L Study Finds Links to Dementia

Full post as published by Brain Injury News and Information on September 30, 2009 (boomark / email).

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