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<p>The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council’s (IIAC) 2005 review of Dementia in boxers
and footballers concluded that there was insufficient evidence to recommend an addition
to the list of Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (available to employed earners)
prescribed diseases. In 2014 IIAC sought high quality research evidence about the
risks of neurodegenerative diseases in professional sportspersons. The IIAC response
in May 2016 concluded that despite the passage of time, epidemiological evidence on
risk of dementia pugilistica in boxers relative to other workers remains elusive,
and that there was no new important evidence to change the previous appraisal of prescription
in respect of soccer players. As in 2005, there remains insufficient evidence to indicate
a more than doubled risk of a dementia in boxers.</p><p> </p><p>IIAC has no plans
at present to revisit this, but would likely reconsider should new evidence emerge.
However the department provides a range of benefits to support with extra costs of
disability, which individuals may be entitled to depending on their circumstances.</p>
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