Contact sports such as football and boxing are much more likely to cause traumatic encephalopathy than military service and blast exposure. This is evidenced by the results of a study conducted by a group of scientists who examined several hundred brain samples from deceased soldiers and athletes. Military Times.
Of the 225 brain samples taken from the military, only 10 (4.4%) had severe chronic damage, and all of these soldiers had a history of contact sports.
In a study of the brains of 45 military personnel exposed to a blast wave, traumatic encephalopathy was found in only three out of 180 and seven in military personnel not exposed to shell shock.
At the same time, such lesions were found in 87% of 202 former US football players: 21% of high school football players, 91% of college teams, and 99% of the brains of National Football League players. cases.
People with CTE are thought to develop a range of cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and motor problems later in life.
Formerly Pentagon restrictions lifted HIV-positive without clinical signs of the disease in the service of the US military. It is also forbidden to dismiss HIV-infected officers and soldiers from the army due to their illness.