Consultant neuropathologist Professor Willie Stewart said the findings should be a stimulus for rugby to act quicker than it has been - after 'pretty slow' progress - to reduce the risks of playing the sport.
Rugby chiefs are being urged to reduce the number of matches by a traumatic head injury expert behind a study that has found increased dangers of former players developing brain diseases.
Expansion is on the agenda in rugby union with discussions over creating a new men's global competition to be staged by countries in between quadrennial World Cups. His latest research examined the health of 412 Scottish men who played international rugby compared to 1,200 people from the general population.The study points to a 15-times higher risk of a motor neurone disease diagnosis among the retired players.
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