May 12, 1988New England Journal of Medicine

The Mortality Experience of Major-League Baseball Players

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Why the study?

Does the conditioning and training of professional athletes determine their length of life or cause of death?

Population

1,024 American professional baseball players who played their first games for a professional major-league…

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Authors

JWJohn W. WaterborUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham EDElizabeth DelzellStanford Medicine DADragana A. AndjelkovichResearch Triangle Park Foundation

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Implication

Lower mortality in elite baseball players supports healthy worker effect; leaves open causal role of conditioning versus selection.

Structured PICO

Does the conditioning and training of professional athletes determine their length of life or cause of death?

Population

1,024 American professional baseball players who played their first games for a professional major-league baseball team in the United States between 1911 and 1915 and who survived until 1925.

Outcome

Rate and causes of deathhard clinical

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Waterbor et al. (1988) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a832fcd5db41a8ba7af9474 https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198805123181917

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The Mortality Experience of Major-League Baseball Players

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