Amateurs and professionals sought by university study‘Physical and physiological differences could be important’A study into dementia in
Football is urging amateur and professional female players to volunteer to discover whether they could be more at risk than their male counterparts from repeatedly heading the ball.
Although recent research from the University of Glasgow showed retired male players are about five times more likely to get Alzheimer’s disease, far less work has been done on the potential effects on female players, with concerns that “physical and physiological differences” could mean they are at even greater risk of developing dementia.