National Hockey League “enforcers,” those players who engage in frequent fights on the ice, tend to die about 10 years earlier than their teammates, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Network Open.
But the researchers found that enforcers had died at a younger age than the others — in their mid to late 40s rather than mid to late 50s. The researchers wrote that “fighting exposes players to repetitive head trauma and may be associated with increased risk of developing CTE,” or
, a degenerative brain disorder linked to repeated head injuries, such as those sustained by football players.For the 21 hockey enforcers who died, the study found that 11 died of causes often related to CTE, such as neurodegenerative disorders, drug overdoses, suicides and motor vehicle crashes. None of the other players died of these causes, except for one death from a vehicle crash. “It is time that the NHL aligns with other professional sports and eliminates fighting,” the researchers wrote.
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