All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Major League Baseball Players

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• Personal Author:
  Kponee-Shovein KZ ; Nguyen VT ; Paganoni S ; Weisskopf MG ; Zafonte RD
• Description:
  There has been increasing attention to professional athletes' long-term health. A few studies reported lower all-cause mortality among Major League Baseball (MLB) players compared with US males, but only 1 study with a small sample (n = 985) examined specific causes of death and reported largely nonsignificant results. Players in MLB may have lower cause-specific mortality rates because of fitness associated with playing baseball, but other sport-related aspects-injuries, lifestyle habits, or environmental exposures particular to baseball-could adversely affect players' health. We recently found lower mortality rates among MLB players overall and for certain specific causes compared with National Football League players, all of whom had playing careers of 5 years or longer. To better understand risks compared with the general public, we examined mortality rates among MLB players, including specific causes of death and differences by career length and position. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Athletes Environmental Exposure Mortality Neoplasms Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Cancer Rates Environmental Exposure Mortality Rates Physical Fitness Sports Injuries
• ISSN:
  2168-6106
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1298-1301
• Volume:
  179
• Issue:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20068522
• Citation:
  JAMA Intern Med 2019 Sep; 179(9):1298-1301
• Contact Point Address:
  Marc G. Weisskopf, PhD, ScD, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Bldg 1-1402, Boston, MA 02115
• Email:
  mweissko@hsph.harvard.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  Harvard School of Public Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  JAMA Internal Medicine
• End Date:
  20280630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ecb6785ad3247e599ea5403c40f1a9d43baf1490b3f68124ed07dea1beab461917c4dc277620aac234973ad202df620e3cc6c6ac652bc076658a4ee0a4a24c56
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207137/cdc_207137_DS1.pdf
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