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Row for Your Life: A Century of Mortality Follow-Up of French Olympic Rowers

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  • Juliana Antero-Jacquemin
  • François Deni Desgorces
  • Frédéric Dor
  • Adrien Sedeaud
  • Amal Haïda
  • Philippe LeVan
  • Jean-François Toussaint

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Background/Aim: Strenuous endurance training required to participate in the highest sports level has been associated with deleterious effects on elite athletes' health and cardiac abnormalities. We aimed to describe overall mortality and main causes of deaths of male French rowers participating in at least one Olympic Game (OG) from 1912 to 2012 in comparison with the French general population. Methods: Identity information and vital status of French Olympic rowers were validated by National sources from 1912 to 2013 (study's endpoint) among 203 rowers; 52 out of 255 (20.3%) were excluded because their vital statuses could not be confirmed. Main causes of deaths were obtained from the National registry from 1968 up to 2012. Overall and disease-specific mortalities were calculated through standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) with its 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The overall mortality was calculated for the whole rowers' cohort (PT) and for two periods apart: (P1) including rowers from 1912 to 1936 OG, a cohort in which all rowers have deceased and (P2) considering rowers from 1948 to 2012 OG. Results: Among the 203 rowers analysed, 46 died before the study's endpoint, mainly from neoplasms (33%), cardiovascular diseases (21%) and external causes (18%). PT demonstrates a significant 42% lower overall mortality (SMR: 0.58, 95% CI: 0.43–0.78, p

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  • Juliana Antero-Jacquemin & François Deni Desgorces & Frédéric Dor & Adrien Sedeaud & Amal Haïda & Philippe LeVan & Jean-François Toussaint, 2014. "Row for Your Life: A Century of Mortality Follow-Up of French Olympic Rowers," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(11), pages 1-5, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0113362
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113362
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    1. Kalwij, Adriaan, 2018. "The effects of competition outcomes on health: Evidence from the lifespans of U.S. Olympic medalists," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 31(C), pages 276-286.
    2. Romain Jouffroy & Dany Anglicheau & Nicolas Mansencal & Jean François Toussaint & Juliana Antero, 2022. "Relationship between Exercise Intensity and IL-6 Increase during an 80 km Long-Distance Running Race," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(11), pages 1-7, May.
    3. Romain Jouffroy & Oussama Benaceur & Jean-François Toussaint & Juliana Antero, 2022. "Echocardiographic Assessment of Left Ventricular Function 10 Years after the Ultra-Endurance Running Event Eco-Trail de Paris ® 2011," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(14), pages 1-9, July.
    4. Adriaan Kalwij, 2019. "The socio-economic status gradient in median lifespan by birth cohorts: Evidence from Dutch Olympic athletes born between 1852 and 1947," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(12), pages 1-11, December.

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