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| | BMA - Boxing |
 | | Boxers' brains are smaller, surface grey matter is thinner, and fluid-containing ventricles enlarged because of the decrease in white matter. |
 | | One neurosurgeon has claimed that eighty per cent of boxers have brain scarring as a result of the cumulative effects of blows to the head [Reference 13] [Reference 14] Once damaged, the brain is increasingly susceptible to further damage. |
 | | While the number of deaths in boxers is significant and serious, it should also be recognised that a professional boxer’s risk of suffering a significant non-fatal injury is also very high, for example, in 2003, an Australian study documented 107 serious injuries during 427 bouts, many of which were to the head and hands. |
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