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

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  • Rachel Grashow Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Taylor Valencia Shaffer-Pancyzk Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Inana Dairi Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hang Lee Massachusetts General Hospital Biostatistics Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dean Marengi Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jillian Baker Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marc G Weisskopf Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Frank E Speizer Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alicia J Whittington Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Herman A Taylor Football Players Health Study at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Cardiovascular Research Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Dylan Keating Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Adam Tenforde Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • James Sawalla Guseh Cardiovascular Performance Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Meagan M Wasfy Cardiovascular Performance Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ross Zafonte Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Aaron Baggish Cardiovascular Performance Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and Institute for Sport Science, University of Lausanne (ISSUL), Lausanne, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Rachel Grashow, Environmental Health, Harvard University T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; rgrashow{at}hsph.harvard.edu
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Grashow R, Shaffer-Pancyzk TV, Dairi I, et al
Healthspan and chronic disease burden among young adult and middle-aged male former American-style professional football players
British Journal of Sports Medicine 2023;57:166-171.

Publication history

  • Accepted November 22, 2022
  • First published December 7, 2022.
Online issue publication 
January 19, 2023

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