Healthspan and chronic disease burden among young adult and middle-aged male former American-style professional football players.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the relationships between age, healthspan and chronic illness among former professional American-style football (ASF) players.

Methods

We compared age-specific race-standardised and body mass index-standardised prevalence ratios of arthritis, dementia/Alzheimer's disease, hypertension and diabetes among early adult and middle-aged (range 25-59 years) male former professional ASF players (n=2864) with a comparator cohort from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and National Health Interview Survey, two representative samples of the US general population. Age was stratified into 25-29, 30-39, 40-49 and 50-59 years.

Results

Arthritis and dementia/Alzheimer's disease were more prevalent among ASF players across all study age ranges (a

SUBMITTER: Grashow R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9887383 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature