Heading for trouble: is dementia a game changer for football?

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Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. A systematic review on the risk of neurodegenerative diseases and neurocognitive disorders in professional and varsity athletes.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
   Pooled it
2. Heading in Football: Incidence, Biomechanical Characteristics and the Association with Acute Cognitive Function-A Three-Part Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021
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3. Heading Frequency and Risk of Cognitive Impairment in Retired Male Professional Soccer Players.JAMA network open · 2023
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4. Soccer's AI transformation: deep learning's analysis of soccer's pandemic research evolution.Frontiers in psychology · 2023
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5. Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls.BMJ open · 2022
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6. The Muscle-Brain Axis and Neurodegenerative Diseases: The Key Role of Mitochondria in Exercise-Induced Neuroprotection.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
   Review
7. Football's InfluencE on Lifelong health and Dementia risk (FIELD): protocol for a retrospective cohort study of former professional footballers.BMJ open · 2019
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