99% of Former NFL Football Players Shown to Have Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

The research is showing a strong association of football players and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the condition that results from multiple head concussions. Autopsy studies of former players brains revealed evidence of CTE at all levels of play, worse in the college and professional athletes.

87% of all the brains studied, and 99% of those of former NFL players had CTE.  

This is a real problem that needs to be addressed at all levels - high school, college, professional, etc.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/the-latest-brain-study-examined-111-former-nfl-players-only-one-didnt-have-cte/2017/07/25/835b49e4-70bc-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html?utm_term=.caebe56708e2

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