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posted by janrinok on Monday May 27 2019, @09:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the being-unfit-is-good-for-you dept.

Science Magazine:

The men competing in the National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB) are some of the most elite athletes in the world. But their death rates differ markedly, a new study of thousands of former pro athletes has found. Former pro football players had a higher overall death rate than baseball veterans and were felled by cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative illnesses at strikingly higher rates than their MLB peers. On average, the football players died 7 years earlier than MLB players, the research found.
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The 517 former NFL players who died during that 35-year period did so at an average age of 59.6 years; the baseball players at 66.7 years. By far the largest cause of death for the football players was heart disease: It was listed as a cause of death for 498 of the 517 NFL players surveyed. By contrast, brain disease contributed to just 39 of those deaths. Among the former MLB players, there were 431 deaths, with heart disease listed as a cause in 225 of them and neurodegenerative disease in 16.

Data analysis.

Hmm, could it be sublimated guilt over their mistreatment of nerds in high school?


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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday May 27 2019, @11:18AM (1 child)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Monday May 27 2019, @11:18AM (#848157) Journal

    also, have they run a control group of similar men by build/height?
    even finding a few 'non-elite' men in the morgue and comparing the age and cause of death of the larger muscley ones vs the tall ones...

    Men who bulk more easily as teens are likely to continue to bulk more easily when they stop spending 20 hours a week in the gym - and they are the ones whose hearts are going to pop..

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by janrinok on Monday May 27 2019, @02:27PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 27 2019, @02:27PM (#848184) Journal

    also, have they run a control group of similar men by build/height?

    I dunno - what does it say in the link marked Data analysis?