Research Indicates Football Players are More Likely to Develop Parkinson’s: A Story of Organ Donation in Mexico

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research indicates that thewho played professional footballcollege have three timesmore likely to haveparkinson than those whothey played secondary.ilia: grabbed headlinesfamily decision to donate.as jessica zermeño tells us,his mother and sisterdecided to turn their painin hope.jessica: the big tributedoctors and nurses to katiaGaría happened in the hospitalgeneral number 72 of the instituteMexican social security inthe state of exico, because itsfamily decided to donate all theirorgans after an assault, hissister, mariela, was withher at the moment>> she was shot byfirearm in one of hiseyes, was diagnosed atthird day of brain death.jessica: katia was 28 years old andwas healthy, that’s why whenthe tragedy happened puts pasthis mother and sisterthey decided that dying was notits end.>> my daughter gave an ear of theheart.jessica: they also donated theirlegs and his arms, and someof their organs traveled to otherpartes del pís.a generosity recognized byhealth personnel fromoperating room>> for the fabricscan exponentially improve$70 life.>> it’s very different whenYou know there aren’t that many people.It is something that we must prioritize.jessica: in exico the donationof organs and tissues not yetis common, although thereencouraging progress, the yearpast transplantsorgans and tissues in exicoincreased by 40%, thisin relation to 2021, the centernational transplantation reportedmore than 6000 interventions.>> we have 23,000 patients whothey are waiting for an organjessica: and although by protocolthese women will never knowwho saved his life