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Kids who play football before age 12 show CTE-related symptoms sooner

A new study finds kids who start playing tackle football before age 12 will, on average, develop cognitive and emotional symptoms associated with the degenerative brain disease CTE much earlier than those who start later. Jamie Yuccas spoke to one California family that is blaming the sport for their son's early death.
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