British Journal of Sports Medicine • Vol 57 • No 3
Healthspan and chronic disease burden among young adult and middle-aged male former American-style professional football players
December 2022 • Rachel Grashow, Taylor Valencia Shaffer-Pancyzk, Inana Dairi, Hang Lee, Dean A. Marengi, Jillian Baker, Marc G. Weisskopf, Frank E. Speizer, Alicia J…
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 Hea…