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    Home > Dementia > Playing Football Increases Risk of Developing Parkinson Disease Playing American football is linked with a higher risk of developing Parkinson disease (PD), according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Identifying risk factors for PD is critical for early detection and diagnosis. One such risk factor is traumatic brain injury, as observed in both nonhuman models and autopsies. The exposure to repetitive head impact related to playing American football has been associated with

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    Heather Anderson, an Australian football player who died by suicide in 2022, is the first female athlete diagnosed with CTE.

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    • #CTE has been diagnosed in a female professional athlete for the first time. The degenerative brain condition was discovered posthumously in the brain of Heather Anderson, an Australian rules football player who died last year by #suicide. https://t.co/oiNkyK97kA

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    • What stories were most popular in 2022? Today we start the countdown with #10: #Football players with the genetic variant for #Alzheimers and repetitive head impacts had a similar #CTE pathology as those who played for 7+ years: https://t.co/nvgJMHYVXn #neurotwitter @AANMember https://t.co/7TQyHc736Z

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    Wolters Kluwer Health - 1 year(s) ago

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