12/26/2024
In the largest study of deceased male ice hockey players, BU researchers found that the odds of having chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated hits to the head, increased by 34 percent for each year of hockey played. 🧠
The researchers studied male brain donors who had been amateur and professional ice hockey players, in order to look for relationships between the duration of ice hockey play and CTE diagnosis and severity. They found that 27 of 28 professional players had CTE pathology (18 of 19 were NHL players and 9 others were non-NHL professional players). And they found that 46 percent of college, junior league, and semiprofessional players (13 of 28) and 10 percent of youth and high school players (2 of 21) had CTE pathology.
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