Dementia research: Ex-professional footballers urge to step forward for study
Professional footballers are more than three times likely to die of neurodegenerative diseases - so researchers are looking for ex-players to help with a new study.
The BrainHope project will build on the discoveries of the Field study in 2019 which found that professional footballers were three-and-a-half times more likely to die of neurodegenerative disease than age-matched members of the general population.
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