A link between playing football and dementia was in the news again this week. Sir Geoff Hurst, member of course of the 1966 England team that won the World Cup, is giving interviews, reported in the Guardian.
Four of that squad have died with dementia, and one other is living with it now. Jeff Astle, of West Bromwich Albion and England, had repeated heading of footballs recorded as a cause of his death (described by the coroner as an "industrial injury"). A recent retrospective cohort study conducted in Scotland compared former soccer players and controls. Death with neurodegenerative disease listed as the primary cause was 1.7% in the cohort of former soccer players, and 0.5% in the control. Further research is needed, the study does say.
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