All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Major League Baseball Players

Vy T Nguyen; Ross D Zafonte; Kale Z Kponee-Shovein; Sabrina Paganoni; Marc G Weisskopf

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.1218

All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Major League Baseball Players

JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Sep 1;179(9):1298-1301. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.1218.

Authors

Vy T Nguyen¹, Ross D Zafonte², Kale Z Kponee-Shovein^{1

3}, Sabrina Paganoni^{2

4}, Marc G Weisskopf^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston.
³ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

Abstract

This study assesses the all-cause and cause-specific mortality rates among Major League Baseball players compared with the general US male population.

Grants and funding

P30 ES000002/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States