Yesterday the New York Times reported on a study commissioned by the National Football League. The findings were a big concern for NFL players. It seems Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for men ages 30 through 49! Read more here…..
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