{"id":5226,"date":"2019-01-31T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2023-07-03T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T20:03:58","slug":"bu-cte-center-experts-comment-on-nfls-statistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/2019\/01\/31\/bu-cte-center-experts-comment-on-nfls-statistic\/","title":{"rendered":"BU CTE Center Experts comment on NFL&#8217;s Statistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Boston University CTE expert cautions that the NFL&#8217;s 24% drop in concussions did NOT necessarily reduce the risk of the degenerative brain disease, calling the findings &#8216;irrelevant&#8217; to the long-term effects of repetitive head injuries<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6648437\/Expert-cautions-NFLs-24-concussion-drop-wont-help-prevent-degenerative-brain-disease-CTE.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-content=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6648437\/Expert-cautions-NFLs-24-concussion-drop-wont-help-prevent-degenerative-brain-disease-CTE.html\" data-type=\"external\" rel=\"noopener undefined noreferrer\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University CTE expert cautions that the NFL&#8217;s 24% drop in concussions did NOT necessarily reduce the risk of the degenerative brain disease, calling the findings &#8216;irrelevant&#8217; to the long-term effects of repetitive head injuries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4426],"tags":[4447],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7117,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/7117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}