Football headers and dementia: five minutes with Willie Stewart
BMJ 2018; 360 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k190 (Published 16 January 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;360:k190
- Anne Gulland
- London
“This month [January] we’re starting a three year study— Football’s Influence on Lifelong Health and Dementia Risk (FIELD)—looking at the risk of dementia in, and overall health of, professional footballers.
“The first suggestion that football might be associated with dementia goes back to 2002 when [former West Bromwich Albion player and famous header] Jeff Astle died of the disease at the age of 59 and the coroner ruled his death was the result of industrial disease.
“There have been several studies in the last five or 10 years, but invariably numbers …
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