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BRAIN: CTE diagnosed in 110 of 111 of former NFL players that were studied
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
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died.
“There
are
many
questions that remain unan-
swered,” said lead author
Dr. Ann McKee, a Boston
University
neuroscientist.
“How common is this” in the
general population and all
football players?
“How many years of foot-
ball is too many?” and “What
is the genetic risk? Some
players do not have evidence
of this disease despite long
playing years,” she noted.
It’s also uncertain if some
players’ lifestyle habits —
alcohol, drugs, steroids,
diet — might somehow
contribute, McKee said.
Dr. Munro Cullum, a
neuropsychologist at UT
Southwestern
Medical
Center in Dallas, emphasized
that the report is based on
a selective sample of men
who were not necessarily
representative of all football
players. He said problems
other than CTE might explain
some of their most common
symptoms before death —
depression, impulsivity and
behavior changes. He was
not involved in the report.
McKee said research
from the brain bank may lead
to answers and an under-
standing of how to detect the
disease in life, “while there’s
still a chance to do something
about it.” Currently, there’s
no known treatment.
The strongest scientific
evidence says CTE can only
be diagnosed by examining
brains after death, although
some researchers are experi-
menting with tests performed
on the living. Many scientists
believe that repeated blows
to the head increase risks for
developing CTE, leading to
progressive loss of normal
brain matter and an abnormal
buildup of a protein called
tau. Combat veterans and
athletes in rough contact
sports like football and
boxing are among those
thought to be most at risk.
The new report was
published Tuesday in the
Journal of the American
Medical Association.
CTE was diagnosed in
177 former players or nearly
90 percent of brains studied.
That includes 110 of 111
brains from former NFL
players; 48 of 53 college
players; nine of 14 semi-pro-
fessional players, seven of
eight Canadian Football
league players and three
of 14 high school players.
The disease was not found
in brains from two younger
Dr. Ann McKee/BU via AP
This combination of photos provided by Boston Uni-
versity shows sections from a normal brain, top, and
from the brain of former University of Texas football
player Greg Ploetz, bottom, in stage IV of chronic trau-
matic encephalopathy.
players.
A panel of neuropathol-
ogists made the diagnosis
by examining brain tissue,
using recent criteria from the
National Institute of Neuro-
logical Disorders and Stroke,
McKee said.
The NFL issued a state-
ment saying these reports
are important for advancing
science related to head
trauma and said the league
“will continue to work with
a wide range of experts to
improve the health of current
and former NFL athletes.”
After years of denials, the
NFL acknowledged a link
between head blows and
brain disease and agreed in
a $1 billion settlement to
compensate former players
who had accused the league
of hiding the risks.
The
journal
update
includes many previously
reported cases, including
former NFL players Bubba
Smith, Ken Stabler, Dave
Duerson and Ralph Wenzel.
New ones include retired
tight end Frank Wainright,
whose 10-year NFL career
included stints with the
Miami Dolphins, New
Orleans Saints and Baltimore
Ravens. Wainright died in
April 2016 at age 48 from
a heart attack triggered by
bleeding in the brain, said his
wife, Stacie. She said he had
struggled almost eight years
with frightening symptoms
including confusion, memory
loss and behavior changes.
Wainright played before
the league adopted stricter
safety rules and had many
concussions, she said. He
feared CTE and was adamant
about donating his brain, she
said.
“A lot of families are
really tragically affected by
it — not even mentioning
what these men are going
through and they’re really
not sure what is happening
to them. It’s like a storm that
you can’t quite get out of,”
his wife said.
Frank Wycheck, another
former NFL tight end, said
he worries that concussions
during his nine-year career
— the last seven with the
Tennessee Titans — have left
him with CTE and he plans to
donate his brain to research.
“Some people have heads
made of concrete, and it
doesn’t really affect some
of those guys,” he said. “But
CTE is real.”
“I know I’m suffering
through it, and it’s been a
struggle and I feel for all the
guys out there that are going
through this,” said Wycheck,
45.
In the new report, McKee
and colleagues found the
most severe disease in former
professional players; mild
disease was found in all three
former high school players
diagnosed with the disease.
Brain bank researchers
previously reported that the
earliest known evidence of
CTE was found in a high
school athlete who played
football and other sports
who died at age 18. He was
not included in the current
report.
The average age of death
among all players studied
was 66. There were 18
suicides among the 177
diagnosed.
————
AP Sports Writer Teresa
M. Walker contributed to this
report.
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