Suicide Mortality Among Retired National Football League Players Who Played 5 or More Seasons
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Neurodegenerative causes of death among retired National Football League players.
OBJECTIVE To analyze neurodegenerative causes of death, specifically Alzheimer disease (AD), Parkinson disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), among a cohort of professional football players. METHODS This was a cohort mortality study of 3,439 National Football League players with at least 5 pension-credited playing seasons from 1959 to 1988. Vital status was ascertained through 2007...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Sports Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0363-5465,1552-3365
DOI: 10.1177/0363546516645093