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Are cumulative head impacts or premorbid conditions more associated with cognitive and behavioral outcomes in youth tackle football players?
Are cumulative head impacts or premorbid conditions more associated with cognitive and behavioral outcomes in youth tackle football players?
In youth tackle football players, premorbid psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions are stronger predictors of cognitive and behavioral outcomes than cumulative head impacts over 4 seasons.
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Premorbid conditions merit assessment in youth football players; hypothesis-generating for whether they outweigh cumulative impacts.
In this cohort of youth tackle football players, premorbid conditions, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, anxiety, and depression, were associated with cognitive and behavioral outcomes more often than cumulative impact.
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