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Footballers 50% more likely to develop dementia, study finds

17 March 2023

Professor David Curtis (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) and Professor Gill Livingston (UCL Psychiatry) comment on the new study by Karolinska Institutet in Sweden which found male footballers are 50% more likely to develop dementia than the rest of the population.

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