ALS and soccer/sports

[elzinator]

Very interesting. Read this in NS last night.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7045

More:
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/02/23/soccer.disease.reut/

http://www.alsphiladelphia.org/Research/soccerconnection.htm

I wonder what exactly is the correlate.
Anyone else hear/know more about this?

 

[Matthew]

elzinator <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Very interesting. Read this in NS last night.
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7045
>
> More:
> http://edition.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/02/23/soccer.disease.reut/
>
> http://www.alsphiladelphia.org/Research/soccerconnection.htm
>
> I wonder what exactly is the correlate.
> Anyone else hear/know more about this?
>
Isn't there a similar correlation with Gulf War veterans? Perhaps the cause
is some sort of herbicide or pesticide?

 

[Maxwell Bygraves]

"elzinator" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Very interesting. Read this in NS last night.
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7045
>
> More:
> http://edition.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/02/23/soccer.disease.reut/
>
> http://www.alsphiladelphia.org/Research/soccerconnection.htm
>
> I wonder what exactly is the correlate.
> Anyone else hear/know more about this?
>

Well soccer players do head the ball quite a lot.