Citation

Uchendu US, Omalu BI, Cifu DX, Egede LE. Am. J. Public Health 2016; 106(8): 1366-1368.

Affiliation

Uchenna S. Uchendu is with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC. Bennet I. Omalu is with the Department of Pathology, University of California, Davis. David X. Cifu is with the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond. Leonard E. Egede is with the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, American Public Health Association)

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2016.303293

PMID

27310350

Abstract

The Secretary of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Honorable Robert McDonald recently pledged to donate his brain for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) research. Citing exposures to football, rugby, boxing, and paratrooper escapades as an army ranger, Secretary McDonald suggested that his brain could add to the body of knowledge on the effect of repeated concussions. In the meantime, work is under way to make the connections between the CTE postmortem diagnosis and the clinical findings while people are alive. Such knowledge is expected to positively impact medical management for people at risk and inform necessary policies, preventive actions, and health equity issues. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print June 16, 2016: e1-e2. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303293).

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