A female professional athlete has been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, for the first time, researchers say.
The degenerative brain disease, which is believed to be caused by repeated head injuries, was diagnosed in the late Australian rules footballer Heather Anderson, who died at the age of 28 in November 2022, researchers said.
The family had hoped to learn"whether a lifetime of exposure to repetitive head trauma contributed to death," a report co-authored by one of the researchers behind the study and published by"She is the first female athlete diagnosed with CTE, but she will not be the last," it said.
Dr. Robert Cantu, co-founder and medical director of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in the U.S., said research on CTE in women needed to be “urgently” accelerated to help understand the situation better. “We can prevent CTE by preventing repeated impacts to the head, and we must begin a dialogue with leaders in women’s sports today so we can save future generations of female athletes from suffering.”CTE is a disorder that is still"not yet well understood," the Mayo Clinic says on its website. Its development is associated with repeated head injuries"often occurring in contact sports or military combat," it says.
Anderson had also served in the military for nine years and participated in amateur martial arts for three years, though no concussions were reported from those activities, the report said.
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