Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Dementia Risk Seen in Players in N.F.L. Study

By ALAN SCHWARZ

A study commissioned by the National Football League reports 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. ....

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