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Late NFL Receiver Suffered From Chronic Brain Injury, Researchers Find
June 28, 2010 | USA Today

According to Virginia University researchers, late ex-NFL receiver Chris Henry suffered from a condition caused by repeated head injuries. Henry, who played for the Cincinnati Bengals, died in December 2009 after falling out of a pickup truck cab. He was 26 years-old.

Autopsy results found that he had died from multiple head injuries, a fractured skull and brain hemorrhaging. The announcement was made by experts at the Brain Injury Research Institute at West Virginia, who performed a post-mortem microscopic analysis of Henry’s brain and found a chronic traumatic brain encephalopathy (CTE), caused by multiple blows to the head.

Henry is the youngest person to be diagnosed with the condition. According to researchers, the chronic condition could have influenced his mental and emotional state, as well as his behavior, prior to his death. This finding has raised concerns about the safety of the NFL and its high incidence of brain damage.

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