CNN : declared in CTE found in 99% of studied brains from deceased NFL players

Kevin Turner, Out of 202 deceased former football players total -- a combination of high school, college and professional players -- CTE was neuropathologically diagnosed in 177, the study said. (CNN) Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE , was found in 99% of deceased NFL players' brains that were donated to scientific research , according to a study published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA . "And we urgently need to find answers for not just football players, but veterans and other individuals exposed to head trauma." "It certainly can be prevented and that's why we really need to understand how much exposure to head trauma and what type of head trauma the body can sustain before it gets into this irreversible cascade of events," she said. The disease was identified in 110 out of 111 former NFL players.

Study: All but one of 111 brains of former NFL players diagnosed with CTE

Neuropathologist Dr. Ann McKee did a study of 202 brains, 111 of them from former NFL players, and all but one of them was diagnosed with CTE. Of the 202 brains in the study among players from all levels of football, 87 percent were revealed to have CTE. But the percentage of people who spend a lifetime playing football that end up with CTE is certainly still staggering. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who said in March 2016 that it is "absurd" to link CTE with playing football. In other words, perhaps it should not be surprising that players who spent their lives playing in the "old" NFL are diagnosed with CTE.


It was also found in 48 of 53 college players and three of the 14 high school players. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The donated brains of college and high school players were also studiedA study of American football players' brains has found that 99% of professional NFL athletes tested had a disease associated with head injuries. The neurodegenerative brain disease CTE is typically found in people who have suffered repeated blows to the head, studies have found. players featured in the study came from every position on the field, and from high school, university, and Canadian leagues, in addition to the NFL. The report published on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association studied 202 deceased players - 111 of them from the NFL.


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