Among contact sport athletes younger than 30 years old, researchers found that 4 in 10 had the brain disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
Aug. 29, 2023 – Among contact sport athletes younger than 30, researchers found that 4 in 10 had the brain disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.and examined the donated brains of 152 athletes ranging in age from 13 to 29 years old. The study was conducted by researchers at Boston University, who noted that 3 to 4 years of time on the field appeared to be the difference between whether a player was likely to have signs of CTE or not.
Among the donors, 111 were white, 27 were Black, one was American Indian or Alaska Native, and 13 were multiracial, another race such as Tongan, or their race was unspecified. Black donors were more likely to be diagnosed with CTE than other donors. Black brain donors overall tended to be older than donors of other races by an average of more than 1.5 years, and Black donors averaged an additional 4 years of football play.
“It seems to be well accepted now that you can play at a very high level of elite American football or ice hockey and get CTE,” said the director at the university’s CTE Center, Ann McKee, MD, in a. “But we’re seeing the beginnings of this disease in young people who were primarily playing amateur sports.”
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