A Congressional investigators' report found NFL senior health officials improperly attempted to intervene in a government study analyzing football brain injury risk, according to The Hill.
Here are five key points:
1. Through a $30 million donation, the NFL funded the study, which the National Institutes of Health conducted.
2. In the 91-page report, congressional investigators found at least six NFL officials tried to alter the study's direction.
3. In March, The New York Times obtained data which showed the NFL's research left out more than 100 diagnosed concussions from its studies. The New York Times investigation claimed the NFL calculated concussions' rates using incomplete data, which made concussions appear less prevalent then they were, in actuality.
When probed about the missing cases, NFL officials said they did not require the clubs to submit their data, and not every club did. League officials said they should have made that fact clear when giving their results.
4. The congressional investigators stated the NFL's action fit "a longstanding pattern of attempts to influence the scientific understanding of the consequences of repeated head trauma" in their report.
5. The league has not released a statement on the findings yet.
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