Professional football players have higher death rates from brain and heart problems than baseball players, a new study finds, but doctors are unclear why.
and heart problems than baseball players but the reasons are unclear, a new study suggests.
The differences may seem obvious. Repeated head blows have been linked with a wasting brain disease in football players. Also, girth can contribute to heart problems, and football players are generally bigger and heavier than baseball players.But the researchers emphasized that they lacked information on family history, genetics and lifestyle that all affect risks for specific diseases and death.
They focused on 6,100 athletes born before 1965 who competed for at least five seasons in the NFL or Major League Baseball and who died between 1979 through 2013. Among NFL players, there were 517 deaths at an average age of 60. That compares with 431 deaths at age 67 on average among baseball players.
The researchers, led by Marc Weisskopf from Harvard's public health school, wrote that their results may be"limited to NFL players in the playing years considered because there have been changes in sports characteristics over time, such as helmet use, training regimen, and smoking prevalence." They said more studies are needed to determine reasons for the differences they found.
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