Death Rates of Elite and Professional American Athletes During Early Adulthood are Lower than the General Population.

Am J Lifestyle Med · 2026 · PMC12846902 · PMID 41613277

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

Cohort with Limited Sample Size and Anomalous Death Rates There were multiple sports in females with low SMRs but where the 95% confidence intervals included 1.0 indicating that the lower death rates did not reach statistical significance, including aquatic sports, golf, basketball, and tennis.

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