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Soccer, neurotrauma and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: is there a connection?

Current medical research and opinion - 1 Apr 2004

Piazza Ornella, Sirén Anna-Leena, Ehrenreich Hannelore

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Trauma has long been hypothesized but never proven to be a risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This hypothesis may now have a renaissance due to recent reports in the lay press on 'the Italian motoneuron mystery', i.e. the disclosure of 33 diagnosed ALS cases in a subpopulation of 24000 soccer players of the top three Italian divisions from the 1960s to 1996. Could the repetitive brain trauma...

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PMID: 15119987
DOI: 10.1185/030079904125003296

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