A new Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center study has found that, among a sample of 152 young athletes exposed to repetitive head impacts (RHI) who were under age 30 at the time of death, 41.4% (63) had neuropathological evidence of CTE, a degenerative brain disease caused by RHI.
includes the first American woman athlete diagnosed with CTE, a 28-year-old collegiate soccer player whose identity remains private.
Clinical symptoms were common among the athletes, whether or not they had CTE. Clinical symptoms included depression , apathy , difficulty controlling behaviors , and problems with decision making . Substance abuse also was frequent, with alcohol abuse present in 42.9% and drug abuse in 38.3%. Amateur athletes comprised 71.4% of those diagnosed with CTE, and included American football, ice hockey, soccer and rugby players, and wrestlers. Those diagnosed with CTE were older and had significantly more years of exposure to contact sports .of young athletes, in part because they are more likely to have symptoms. CTE cannot yet be diagnosed in the living, and the true prevalence of CTE in any population remains unknown.
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