Career duration and later-life health conditions among former professional American-style football players.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Career duration is often used as a metric of neurotrauma exposure in studies of elite athletes. However, as a proxy metric, career length may not accurately represent causal factors, and associations with health outcomes may be susceptible to selection effects. To date, relationships between professional American-style football (ASF) career length and postcareer health remain incompletely characterised.

Methods

We conducted a survey-based cross-sectional cohort study of former professional ASF players. Flexible regression methods measured associations between self-reported career duration and four self-reported health conditions: pain, arthritis, mood and cognitive symptoms. We also measured associations between career duration and four self-reported ASF exposures

SUBMITTER: Grashow R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11503077 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature