Download or read book College Athletics Longevity and Cause of Death written by Anthony P. Polednak and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Longevity and Morbidity of College Athletes written by Henry Joseph Montoye and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Longevity and Morbidity of Football Athletes at Michigan State College written by Mark Hauser O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relation of Athletics to Longevity written by Earl Robert Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Longevity of Athletes written by Anthony P. Polednak and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1979 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of the Longevity and Morbidity of Football and Basketball Athletes at Michigan State University written by Andrew Joseph Hudec and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of the Longevity and Morbidity of Track Athletes at Michigan State University written by Herbert W. Olson and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Caloric Expenditure and Longevity Among Michigan State University Athletes and Non athletes written by Timothy J. Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Competitive Sports as a Factor in Longevity written by David Joseph Ansfield and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Activity Patterns on Longevity of Athletes and Non athletes written by Kenneth Ellis Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Longevity and Morbidity of College Athletics written by Henry Joseph Montoye and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SUICIDE IN PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR ATHLETES written by David Lester and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the problem of why so many professional and amateur athletes kill themselves. Professional athletes lead what seem to us to be glamorous lives and make large, and sometimes huge, salaries. In schools, the athletes are often the formal and informal leaders, given recognition and honors. News of their suicides shocks us because, to the rest of us, these are the successful members of our society, often looked up to as heroes and role models. The book, therefore, explores the incidence of suicide in athletes and reviews the risk factors that increase the likelihood of suicide in athletes. Research on these risk factors, such as the role of steroids and concussions, is reviewed, and case studies are provided to illustrate these risk factors. Some of the topics include: suicide in baseball and cricket; how steroids is often linked to suicide, as well as concussion and traumatic brain injury; how social relationships of athletes, including suicide among lesbian, gay and bisexual athletes, and sexual abuse, can lead to suicide; suicide as a result of bullying among high school and college athletes and suicide contagion; how spectators’ involvement in sports can be related to suicide; and the effect of retirement on athletes, psychiatric problems among athletes, and how substance abuse among athletes can cause suicide, along with many other topics. The book concludes with ways in which suicide might be prevented in athletes. It will be of great interest to crisis workers and those who work in crisis centers, as well as suicidologists, mental health workers, and others interested in the topic.
Download or read book Longevity and Causes of Mortality in Elite Athletes written by Juliana Antero-Jacquemin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background and objectives: along their careers, elite athletes are subjected to specific constraints that distinguish them from the general population. Such constraints, related to the high intensity of their physical activity, their overexposure to injuries or particular lifestyle, may have long-term consequences on the athletes' health, and ultimately on their longevity. Thus, the main goals of the present study are the following: 1) to describe and analyze elite athletes' longevity and specific causes of mortality in comparison with the general population and according to the type of effort they performed; and 2) to investigate their lifespan trends in comparison with the longest-lived humans in order to apprehend the current scenario of human longevity trends. Methods: we collected data on the biography and the athletic performances of all the French athletes who participated in the Olympic Games (OG) from 1912 to 2012 (n = 4708), and all the French cyclists who participated in the Tour de France (TDF) from 1947 to 2012 (n=786). Then, we verified their vital statuses through the National Registry of Identification of Physical Persons (RNIPP). For the deceased athletes, we obtained the causes of their deaths through the Centre for epidemiology on medical causes of death (CépiDc). We compared the athletes' overall and specific mortality (according to the main chapters of the International Classification of Disease) with the French civilian life tables using Standardized Mortality Ratio (SMR) and the Kaplan-Meier methods. We adapted and applied the life years-lost method under the competing risk model to quantify differences on longevity due to major causes of death according to the athletes' type of effort. Furthermore, we collected data on worldwide deceased Olympians participating in the OG from 1896 to 2012 (n=19 012) and on worldwide supercentenarians (>110 years) deceased between 1900 and 2013 (n= 1 205) in order to analyze their lifespan trends using a density analysis tool (total number of life durations per birth date). Findings and conclusion: French elite athletes show consistently lower mortality (≈40-50% lower) in comparison with their compatriots, whether female or male Olympians, or professional cyclists, mostly related with a lower cardiovascular (≈ 40-60% lower) and cancer mortality (≈ 45% lower). No excess mortality was observed in elite athletes for any of the specific causes of death we studied. French Olympians' lower mortality results in an average of seven years of life saved in relation to the general population. This gain partitioned according to specific causes of deaths shows that cardiovascular longevity benefit is associated with the type of sports practiced during the Olympic career, favoring combined type of effort over very short- or very long-duration effort. In relation to cancer mortality, all types of effort studied were associated with better longevity. Despite their survival advantage, no Olympian in the world, up to date, has ever reached the status of a supercentenarian, as the longest-lived was 106 years old. The common lifespan trends between Olympians and supercentenarians indicate similar mortality pressures over both populations that increase with age, a scenario that is better explained by a biological “barrier” limiting further progression. The supercentenarians' density trends show a current stagnation of the human longevity.
Download or read book Arteriosclerosis 1981 written by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Working Group on Arteriosclerosis and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The causes, evolution, prevention, control, and treatment of arteriosclerosis are the focus of this report of the Working Group on Arteriosclerosis. Current knowledge of the pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and risk factors associated with atherosclerosis are assessed. Conclusions and recommendations of the working group are presented in the areas of fundamental research, prevention, biobehavioral research, and health research personnel.
Download or read book The Objective Monitoring of Physical Activity Contributions of Accelerometry to Epidemiology Exercise Science and Rehabilitation written by Roy J. Shephard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the new knowledge that has been gained from the objective monitoring of habitual physical activity by means of pedometers and accelerometers. It reviews current advances in the technology of activity monitoring and details advantages of objective monitors relative to physical activity questionnaires. It points to continuing gaps in knowledge, and explores the potential for further advances in the design of objective monitoring devices. Epidemiologists have studied relationships between questionnaire assessments of habitual physical activity and various medical conditions for some seventy years. In general, they have observed positive associations between regular exercise and good health, but because of inherent limitations in the reliability and accuracy of physical activity questionnaires, optimal exercise recommendations for the prevention and treatment of disease have remained unclear. Inexpensive pedometers and accelerometers now offer the epidemiologist the potential to collect relatively precisely graded and objective information on the volume, intensity and patterns of effort that people are undertaking, to relate this data to past and future health experience, and to establish dose/response relationships between physical activity and the various components of health. Such information is important both in assessing the causal nature of the observed associations and in establishing evidence-based recommendations concerning the minimal levels of daily physical activity needed to maintain good health.
Download or read book Controversy in Cardiology written by E.K. Chung and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is not to discuss in depth various topics in medicine nor to describe in detail all possible controversial subjects in car diology. The primary intention is to describe common cardiac problems with significant controversial viewpoints frequently encountered in our daily practice. This book presents 19 chapters, including the Coronary Arteries in Fatal Coronary Events, Prophylactic Antiarrhythmic Therapy in Acute Myocar dial Infarction, Mobile Coronary Care-Is It Really Needed?, The Use of Artificial Pacemakers in Acute Myocardial Infarction, Treatment of Car diogenic Shock, Serum Digitalis Level-Practical Value, Factors Modifying the Efficacy of Digitalis, Hyperlipidemia and Vascular Disease, Antianginal Agents for Coronary Heart Disease, Anticoagulation Therapy for Coronary Heart Disease, When to Operate on Congenital Heart Diseases, Indications for Coronary Artery Surgery and Patient Selection, Car diomyopathy: Diagnostic Criteria and Classification, Therapeutic Approach to Idiopathic Hypertrophic Sub aortic Stenosis, Current Concepts of Hemiblocks, Physical Activity and Coronary Heart Disease, His Bundle Electrocardiography-Its Clinical Value, Computerized Electrocar diography-Its Practical Value, and Echocardiography-Its Practical Value. As the title of the book indicates, the "pro and con" viewpoints are described in each chapter, and the authors final conclusions are expressed at the end of each. It is hoped that the book will be provocative as well as educational and practical. The contents are intended to be clinical, concise, and practical, so that this book will provide all physicians with up-to-date materials that will assist them directly in the daily care of their patients with common cardiac problems.
Download or read book Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling written by Thomas T. Samaras and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several books have been published on scaling in biology and its ramifications in the animal kingdom. However, none has specifically examined the multifaceted effects of how changes in human height create disproportionately larger changes in weight, surface area, strength and other physiological parameters. Yet, the impact of these non-linear effects on individual humans as well as our world's environment is enormous. Since increasing human body size has widespread ramifications, this book presents findings on the human species and its ecological niche. its community and how the species interacts with its environment. Thus, a few chapters provide an ecological overview of how increasing human body size relates to human evolution, fitness, health, survival and the environment. This book provides a unique purview of the laws of scaling on human performance, health, longevity and the environment. Numerous examples from various research disciplines are used to illustrate the impact of increasing body size on many aspects of human enterprises, including work output, athletics and intellectual performance.
