Former football players show higher levels of depression and anxiety and self-reported difficulties with thinking and decision-making than healthy non-players, according to new research.
Early results from the study show that nearly a third of the 142 professional former players in the study had symptoms serious enough to be classed as clinical depression, compared with just 9% of the comparison group. For anxiety, 42% of players met the threshold, against 25% of non-players.
