| The most common side effects are bruising and gait disturbance | , , and troubles with and are the most commonly reported cognitive symptoms in ALS; a meta-analysis found no relationship between dysfunction and disease severity |
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| When the lifetime risk of developing ALS was used to predict the number of expected cases, soccer players were no more likely to die of ALS than the general population | Kenna KP, van Doormaal PT, Dekker AM, Ticozzi N, Kenna BJ, Diekstra FP, et al |
"The diagnosis of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2010".
25| In the same study, three people had a false negative diagnosis of MG, which can mimic ALS and other neurological disorders, leading to a delay in diagnosis and treatment | from the original on 21 August 2014 |
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| None of these models perfectly represents ALS in humans, partly because most animal models are based on gene overexpression, meaning that multiple copies of the mutant human gene are inserted into the transgenic model, and partly because the human nervous system is very different from that of other animals | [ ] Nutrition [ ] A tube is placed through the wall of the abdomen into the stomach |
However, this increased risk was calculated on the basis of two deaths from Alzheimer's disease and six deaths from ALS out of 334 deaths total in this cohort, meaning that this study does not definitively prove that playing American football is a risk factor for ALS.
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