{"id":46349,"date":"2026-08-26T04:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-at-least-one-in-four-dead-players-had-brain-disease-says-study\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T04:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:15:07","slug":"nfl-at-least-one-in-four-dead-players-had-brain-disease-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-at-least-one-in-four-dead-players-had-brain-disease-says-study\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL: At least one in four dead players had brain disease, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"


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As many as 97.7% of NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 could have had brain disease related to repeated blows to the head, a new study says.<\/b><\/p>\n

Researchers looked at 878 former players who died during that period, with 235 having donated their brains to research.<\/p>\n

Of those, 215 were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease which can only be diagnosed after death.<\/p>\n

The study, published in the British Medical Journal, external<\/span><\/a>, also found dementia was common among brain donors.<\/p>\n

“We and others have shown that in NFL players, specifically, there is about a four times higher rate of death from neurodegenerative disease than the general population,” said the report’s lead author Daniel Daneshvar, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n

“These findings indicate that NFL players have a higher prevalence of CTE at death than has been previously shown in multiple community based studies.” <\/p>\n

Researchers calculated a “conservative minimum” of CTE prevalence among those who died in the six-year period to be 24.5% – rising to a “maximum” 97.7%.<\/p>\n

They have urged the NFL to take prevention measures to reduce repetitive head impacts across all levels of the sport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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