1. Flortaucipir tau PET findings from former professional and college American football players in the DIAGNOSE CTE research project.
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Su, Yi, Protas, Hillary, Luo, Ji, Chen, Kewei, Alosco, Michael, Adler, Charles, Balcer, Laura, Bernick, Charles, Au, Rhoda, Banks, Sarah, Barr, William, Coleman, Michael, Dodick, David, Katz, Douglas, Marek, Kenneth, McClean, Michael, McKee, Ann, Mez, Jesse, Daneshvar, Daniel, Palmisano, Joseph, Peskind, Elaine, Turner, Robert, Wethe, Jennifer, Johnson, Keith, Tripodis, Yorghos, Cummings, Jeffrey, Shenton, Martha, Stern, Robert, Reiman, Eric, and Rabinovici, Gil
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CTE ,PET ,Tau ,flortaucipir ,football ,Male ,Humans ,Middle Aged ,Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy ,Football ,tau Proteins ,Positron-Emission Tomography ,Brain Injuries ,Traumatic ,Carbolines - Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Tau is a key pathology in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Here, we report our findings in tau positron emission tomography (PET) measurements from the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project. METHOD: We compare flortaucipir PET measures from 104 former professional players (PRO), 58 former college football players (COL), and 56 same-age men without exposure to repetitive head impacts (RHI) or traumatic brain injury (unexposed [UE]); characterize their associations with RHI exposure; and compare players who did or did not meet diagnostic criteria for traumatic encephalopathy syndrome (TES). RESULTS: Significantly elevated flortaucipir uptake was observed in former football players (PRO+COL) in prespecified regions (p
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- 2024