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A cause for concern?
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Just to add to the recent concern over heading soccer balls and the risk of chronic brain injury1, another study has just appeared that raises new fears. In a paper published in Brain2, Chio and his colleagues from Italy reported that there was an increased risk of developing motor neurone disease (MND) amongst Italian soccer players. In this retrospective cohort study, there were five diagnosed MND cases in a subpopulation of 7435 soccer players of the top two Italian divisions who played in the period from 1970 to 2001. Although only small numbers of MND patients were identified, this exceeded the statistical likelihood of developing MND in this population.
This paper adds to the growing body of concern in regard to the risk of developing this condition from sport. Previously a judicial report from the Italian soccer leagues raised similar concerns. A 4 year study commissioned
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