Mortality and Its Risk Factors Among Professional Athletes : A Comparison Between Former NBA and NFL Players

This eye-opening study adds to the scarce scholarly literature on professional athletes, bringing empirical rigor to issues often clouded by mystery and hearsay. It identifies socioeconomic, demographic, and career variables as risk factors for mortality among former NBA and NFL players, along with hypotheses to be tested relating to elite athletes and other U.S. populations. A detailed multivariate analysis compares mortality factors, rates, and outcomes within and between the two leagues, comparing them also with the general U.S. male population. The findings and conclusions gleaned from this research offer possibilities for future research to improve health and quality of life in this specific athlete cohort, among athletes in general, in other groups, and in the larger society. Potential risk factors analyzed in this groundbreaking study: · Race · Body Mass Index (BMI) · U.S. birthplace region (Northeast, West, Midwest, South)· Years of playing experience · Playing position __Mortality and Its Risk Factors among Professional Athletes__ will spark interest among professionals and researchers in public health, sports medicine, and epidemiology; current and former NBA and NFL players, their families, coaches, trainers, and union representatives; non-professional basketball and football players, athletes from other sports, and their families, coaches, and trainers; social scientists; policymakers; obesity researchers; parents of children who play contact sports; students, teachers, and researchers in occupational health and racial disparities; and health care providers. Of ResultsDiscussion; References; Chapter 5 : Body Mass Index (BMI); Introduction; General Literature Review; The Prevalence and Costs of Obesity; BMI Background; Literature Review of BMI and Mortality in Professional Basketball and Football; Professional Basketball; Professional Football; Methods; Measurement of BMI for This Study; Statistical Plan; Results; Descriptive Statistics; Height and Weight; BMI; Mortality Outcomes by BMI; Vital Status by BMI Categories and League; Cox Models Predicting Mortality Risk Based on BMI Environmetrics is the development and application of quantitative methods in the environmental sciences. This book provides readers with a comprehensive source of relevant fundamental concepts in environmetric research and application. It encompasses all aspects of environmetrics and includes over 600 articles that are extensively cross-referenced. Includes environmetrics techniques and applications in areas such as ecological statistics, climate change, geostatistics, natural resources, environmental health, chemometrics, and pollution