Can we predict how many professional footballers in the UK will develop Alzheimer’s?

Louisa Wright-Watts

Abstract


This paper will be looking be looking at if it is possible to predict how many professional footballers In the UK will develop the neurodegenerative disease called Alzheimer’s (AD) which is a progressive disease where symptoms worsen over time affecting brain function. Footballers and other sports where trauma is frequent to the head is known to be linked to AD through chronic traumatic encephalophagy which affects cognitive impairment and behaviour.


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Health; Biology; Sport; Football; Neurogenerative disease; Alzheimer’s disease

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