MedPage Today (1/27, George) reports, “Higher stages of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disorder associated with repetitive head impacts often from contact sports like American football, were tied to increased odds of dementia, autopsy data showed.” Investigators found that “brain donors with stage IV CTE pathology and no other progressive brain disease had four times the odds of a dementia diagnosis compared with donors who had no CTE pathology (OR 4.48, 95% CI 1.97-10.90).” The data indicated that “donors with stage III CTE pathology were twice as likely to be diagnosed with dementia compared with decedents who had no pathology (OR 2.12, 95% CI 1.91-3.77).” The findings were published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
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