Air pollution’s effects extend to the performance of professional sports players, a new study has found.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
On the football side, each one point rise in AQI was tied to 0.230 decrease in QB rating, a statistic that incorporates passing attempts, completions, touchdowns, interceptions and total yards to give an overall look at quarterback performance. So a quarterback playing for the Arizona Cardinals, who also suffer from terrible air just west of Phoenix in Glendale, would see a decrease in QBR of 15.4 points .
The study’s conclusions are largely in line with what was already known about air quality, but the analysis does not take into account that different pollutants affect the human body differently, according to Michael Koehle, a professor of sports medicine at the University of British Columbia.
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