Mortality of major league baseball players from Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Professional baseball players have lower mortality rates than the US general population, but whether this is true of foreign-born players is not known. Using data on ballplayers from six nations, we compare mortality rates with those of US players via standardized mortality ratios. After controlling...

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Main Authors: Robert J. Reynolds, Steven M. Day
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Makhdoomi Printers 2012-07-01
Series:Global Journal of Medicine and Public Health
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Online Access:http://www.gjmedph.org/uploads/O7-Vo1No4.pdf