We really don't know the thresholds of severity of head injury and numbers of incidents resulting in CTE nor the timing. A little less than 20% of those diagnosed with a closed head injury get CTE. We think the more often there is injury and the more severe it is leads to a higher incidence of CTE but we don't really have a handle on it yet. One problem is that it's difficult to diagnose it until post-mortem examination is done and symptoms and signs of CTE are seen in other disorders as well.
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