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NFL Players Are Four Times More Likely To Develop ALS, A New Study Shows NPR
NFL Players Are Four Times More Likely To Develop ALS, A New Study Shows NPR
NFL Players Are Four Times More Likely To Develop ALS, A New Study Shows NPR
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JOE HERNANDEZ
Researchers examined all 19,423 NFL players who took the field for at
least one game from 1960 to 2019 in what the scientists said was the
largest study of ALS risk in professional football players.
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