CTE found in nearly 92% of former #nfl players studied by Boston University

BOSTON - Researchers at Boston University on Monday reported finding #cte in 345 of the 376 former NFL players they have studied so far.

The school's CTE center said the 91.7% occurrence rate of CTE in ex-NFL players is a sharp contrast with the "extremely low population rate" of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the general public. A 2018 study of brains donated to the Framingham Heart Study detected CTE in only 1 of 164 samples - the sole case belonged to a former college football player.

BU scientists say "repetitive head impacts" are believed to be the top risk factor for CTE, which is a degenerative brain disease.

The researchers caution that there are selection biases in the brain bank used for the #study , and people shouldn't assume that nearly 92% of all current and former NFL players have CTE.

A CTE diagnosis can only be confirmed after death.

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