{"id":5764,"date":"2015-01-27T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2015-01-27T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:00:03","slug":"mosi-tatupu-suffered-from-cte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/27\/mosi-tatupu-suffered-from-cte\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosi Tatupu Suffered from CTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/27\/mosi-tatupu-suffered-from-cte\/mez_jesse-432x636-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/01\/Mez_Jesse-432x636-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mez_Jesse-432x636 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5794\" \/><\/a>ESPN Boston<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.bu.edu\/display\/152739\">Jesse Mez<\/a>, MD, neurology<\/h4>\n<p>Former\u00a0New England Patriots\u00a0running back Mosi Tatupu, who died of a heart attack in 2010 at age 54, suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disease that has been linked to football-related head trauma.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Expert quote:<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Jesse Mez, a researcher at BU&#8217;s CTE Center, conducts interviews with friends and family of deceased players in order to confirm the diagnosis of CTE. Mez told the Globe that &#8220;it&#8217;s striking how different [Tatupu] became.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/boston\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/12237694\/former-new-england-patriots-fan-favorite-mosi-tatupu-suffered-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy-cte\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN Boston Jesse Mez, MD, neurology Former\u00a0New England Patriots\u00a0running back Mosi Tatupu, who died of a heart attack in 2010 at age 54, suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disease that has been linked to football-related head trauma. &nbsp; Expert quote: Dr. Jesse Mez, a researcher at BU&#8217;s CTE Center, conducts interviews with friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126],"tags":[141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}