A senior neurologist is asking female ex-professional footballers to take part in his study, as he fears dementia could be an even bigger issue for women who play the game than men.Dr Michael Grey, lead researcher on the SCORES Project at the University of East Anglia, has more than 35 male ex-pros in the study group – including Iwan Roberts and Mark Bright – but not a single female.An earlier study by the University of Glasgow which focused on men found former footballers are three and a half times more likely to die of neurodegenerative disease than members of the general population.Dr Grey says there must be research on the impact of playing football on women, who account for 61% of dementia cases in the UK.The higher numbers of female dementia sufferers is partly because women on average live longer than men and dementia is usually a disease of old age, but Dr Grey says this does not explain everything. Advertisement “In football specifically, if you look at concussions, women experience concussions to a greater extent than men do,” he said.Dr Grey said repetitive head trauma is a “big factor” for the loss of function of parts of the brain,… Read full this story
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