The neverending saga of the CHeaters

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Here you go:

https://theathletic.com/1261858/2019...sion-research/

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In an article otherwise about tainted concussion studies, this bit stood out:

A paper co-authored by the NCAA’s chief medical officer, Brian Hainline, and published this year says “the prevalence of ADHD in student-athletes and elite athletes may be 7 percent – 8 percent.”

Based on the UNC documents, generally only scholarship athletes were eligible for learning disability testing. And an internal review found that among about 180 UNC athletes tested between 2004 and 2012 – including 137 scholarship football players – there was a “39 percent incidence of LD and or ADHD.”

“If that’s an accurate number, that (does) seem high to me,” says Hainline, a neurologist. “‘Cause it’s unusual for ADHD or LD to somehow just manifest in college. It almost always has manifest already in high school, very often in grade school. It’s unusual just for it to start in college.”

But that’s exactly what Ted Tatos found was happening at UNC. An overwhelming majority of the athletes tested between 2004 and 2012 were diagnosed with ADD, LD or ADHD for the first time at Chapel Hill.

Vive le "Carolina Way"!

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