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Gordon McQueen Inquest Told 'Heading the Ball Contributed to Dementia'
Post-mortem showed Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy linked to repeated head impacts, including heading, which may have contributed to McQueen's vascular dementia and death, family said.
- On Tuesday , Hayley McQueen, TV presenter and daughter of Gordon McQueen, told Northallerton Coroner's Court her father said, `He said 'heading a football for all those years probably hasn’t helped'.`
- After moving from St Mirren to Leeds United, Gordon McQueen became a leading central defender, known for scoring from set-pieces and heading, which experts described as high exposure activities.
- Post-Mortem evidence presented to the court showed CTE alongside vascular dementia after Professor Willie Stewart, consultant neuropathologist, NHS Greater Glasgow, examined the donated brain but could not quantify the disease proportion.
- The inquest is scheduled to run over three days at Northallerton Coroner's Court; McQueen died at his Hutton Rudby home aged 70, and clubs including Middlesbrough Football Club paid tribute.
- Professor Willie Stewart placed McQueen's case within research linking CTE to former athletes, including footballers and rugby players, and agreed that studies show heading contributed to his CTE.
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