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At least 1 in 4 ex-NFL players who died from 2016 to 2021 had CTE, study finds
Deterministic text analytics computed across all 6 sources. Frequency, entity overlap, and claim overlap — computed counts only. Nothing is rated true or false.
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Frequency Analytics
The most common words and exact phrases across every report in this cluster. Computed counts only.
Top words
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Top phrases
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Entity Overlap
Names detected in the report text: which appear across multiple sources, and which only one source mentions.
Across multiple sources
- NFL · 5 sources
- CTE · 4 sources
Unique to one source
- That's · CBS News — Top
- Brain · BBC Sport
- Study · The Guardian — Sport
- CTE Condition · The Guardian — Sport
- Symptoms · The Guardian — Sport
- Study’s Alarming Finding · The New York Times
- At Least · The New York Times
- N.F.L · The New York Times
- Playing · NPR News
- Image · NPR News
- Patrick Smith · NPR News
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Claim Overlap
Near-identical sentences found in two or more reports, versus sentences that appear in only one. Text match only — nothing is rated true or false.
Repeated across sources
No sentence appeared in more than one source.
Appears once
- "That's a much higher rate than is seen in the general population." · CBS News — Top
- "CTE is a brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head." · CBS News — Top
- "A new study says at least one in four ex-NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had a degenerative brain disease but the true figure could be much higher." · BBC Sport
- "215 of 235 donated brains showed signs of CTE Condition can only be diagnosed after death Symptoms include problems with memory and mood At least one in four former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 was found to have had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to a study released on Tuesday." · The Guardian — Sport
- "Out of the 878 former players who died during that time frame, 235 donated their brains for study, researchers said, with 215 of those donated brains found to have CTE, a degenerative disease that can only definitively be diagnosed after death." · The Guardian — Sport
- "Playing football has long been linked to the brain disease known as CTE, but how prevalent it is is still unknown." · NPR News
- "A new study of former NFL players who died recently found that at least 25% had CTE." · NPR News