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Increased dementia risk: call for header ban - risk

The study under 8,000 former Scottish footballers, which were active between the 1930s and 1990s, examined the context of head-balls and later health consequences and delivered brisant results : so it turned out that defenders have an unevenly higher risk to develop at dementia, As your teammate. In Europe, according to World Alzheimer report, in the course of a year, two percent of the more than 65-year-olds fall ill at a dementia, while the risk of years of age - from an average of 0.53 percent among the 65- to 69-year-olds exceeds twelve percent under The maximum legislation (90 years and older). The risk is therefore not insignificant - and for footballers even significantly higher, especially for defensive players. According to the current Glasgow study, defender have a five times higher risk of being affected by dementia or other neurodegenerative diseases than the average. For field players, the risk is four times as high, while goalkeepers have comparable values ​​as the a...