Sports and trauma as risk factors for Motor Neurone Disease: New Zealand case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess whether sports, physical trauma and emotional trauma are associated with motor neurone disease (MND) in a New Zealand case-control study (2013-2016).

Methods

In total, 321 MND cases and 605 population controls were interviewed collecting information on lifetime histories of playing sports, physical trauma (head injury with concussion, spine injury) and emotional trauma (14 categories). ORs were estimated using logistic regression adjusting for age, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, education, smoking status, alcohol consumption and mutually adjusting for all other exposures.

Results

Head injury with concussion ≥3 years before diagnosis was associated with MND (OR 1.51, 95% CI: 1.09-2.09), with strongest associations for two (OR 4.01, 95% CI: 1

SUBMITTER: Chen GX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9321578 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature