Former soccer players were found to be 3.46 times more likely to have neurodegenerative diseases and are more at risk of being diagnosed with dementia.
- Former professional footballers were found to be 3.46 times more likely to have neurodegenerative diseases and are more at risk of being diagnosed with dementia, a study commissioned by England's Football Association said.
"The new report states that 2.8% of retired professional footballers in their study reported medically diagnosed dementia and other neurodegenerative disease compared to 0.9% of controls," it said. "The study also showed that retired football players in the study were twice as likely to fall below established thresholds in some dementia testing than the general population."
The players allege that the sports' governing bodies failed to protect them from concussion and non-concussion injuries that caused various disorders including early onset dementia, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and motor neurone disease.
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