Does Early Career Achievement Lead to Earlier Death? Assessment of the Precocity-Longevity Effect in Professional Basketball Players

Frontiers in Public Health

Nick Wattie¹ 

关键词: mortality;    life span;    athlete;    health;    achievement age;    sport;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2016.00258

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

ObjectivesTo examine the precocity-longevity (P-L) effect in North American professional basketball players who debuted between 1946 and 1979, and to determine whether playing position and decade of play influenced the relationship between age of career achievements and life span.

【 授权许可】

CC BY