Table 3 Neuropathologic and clinical characteristics of brain donors by CTE status

From: Leveraging football accelerometer data to quantify associations between repetitive head impacts and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in males

 

No CTE (n = 180)

Mild CTE (n = 163)

Severe CTE (n = 288)

All (n = 631)

Other neuropathologic diagnoses (%)

 Alzheimer’s disease

39 (21.7%)

4 (2.5%)

56 (19.4%)

99 (15.7%)

 Frontotemporal lobar degeneration

11 (6.1%)

11 (6.8%)

26 (9.1%)

48 (7.6%)

 Lewy body disease

24 (13.4%)

13 (8.0%)

64 (22.2%)

101 (16.1%)

 Motor neuron disease

0 (0.0%)

7 (4.3%)

13 (4.5%)

20 (3.2%)

 Diagnosed dementia (%)

63 (36.7%)

45 (28.0%)

216 (76.3%)

324 (52.6%)

  1. CTE chronic traumatic encephalopathy, IQR interquartile range, SD standard deviation
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