Duration of Ice Hockey Play and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative tauopathy associated with repetitive head impacts (RHIs). Prior research suggests a dose-response association between American football play duration and CTE risk and severity, but this association has not been studied for ice hockey.

Objective

To investigate associations of duration of ice hockey play with CTE diagnosis and severity, functional status, and dementia.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study was conducted among male brain donors in the Understanding Neurological Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy and Framingham Heart Study Brain Banks whose primary RHI exposure was from ice hockey. Donors died, brains were donated, and data were collected between July 1997 and

SUBMITTER: Abdolmohammadi B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11618473 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature