Health and Lifestyle Factors and Dementia Risk Among Former Professional Soccer Players.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Elite-level contact sport participation is associated with increased dementia risk, which may be attributable to sport-related traumatic brain injury and repetitive head impact exposure. However, the contribution of wider, potentially modifiable dementia risk factors remains uncertain.

Objective

To explore the association of potentially modifiable dementia risk factors with dementia risk among former professional soccer players.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used electronic health record linkage to national electronic datasets of general and mental health hospital inpatient and day-case admissions, prescribing information, and death certification in Scotland for male former professional soccer players born between January

SUBMITTER: Russell ER 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11629125 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature