Olympic medallists 'live longer than rest of population'
POSTED 20 Dec 2012 . BY Jessica Tasman-Jones
Whether they won gold, silver or bronze medallists were found to live longer than the general population
Olympic medallists live longer than the rest of the population, according to results from a new study.
Australian researchers compared life expectancy among 15,174 Olympic athletes who won medals between 1896 and 2010 with general population groups matched by country, sex and age.
Whether they won gold, silver or bronze the medallists lived an average 2.8 years longer, a statistically significant survival advantage in eight of the nine countries studied.
The research did not examine why Olympic athletes lived longer but study authors suggested physical activity, genetic factors, healthy lifestyle, and the wealth and status that come from international sporting glory could contribute.
A second study examined the variations of increased life expectancy among different sports and found in most cases there was little difference.
Athletes from low cardiovascular intensity sports such as golf or cricket had just as much advantage as those who did high intensity sports like rowing or cycling.
Athletes from high contact elite sports, like boxing, rugby and ice hockey, did not experience the same benefits to life expectancy.
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Olympic medallists 'live longer than rest of population'
POSTED 20 Dec 2012 . BY Jessica Tasman-Jones
Whether they won gold, silver or bronze medallists were found to live longer than the general population
Olympic medallists live longer than the rest of the population, according to results from a new study.
Australian researchers compared life expectancy among 15,174 Olympic athletes who won medals between 1896 and 2010 with general population groups matched by country, sex and age.
Whether they won gold, silver or bronze the medallists lived an average 2.8 years longer, a statistically significant survival advantage in eight of the nine countries studied.
The research did not examine why Olympic athletes lived longer but study authors suggested physical activity, genetic factors, healthy lifestyle, and the wealth and status that come from international sporting glory could contribute.
A second study examined the variations of increased life expectancy among different sports and found in most cases there was little difference.
Athletes from low cardiovascular intensity sports such as golf or cricket had just as much advantage as those who did high intensity sports like rowing or cycling.
Athletes from high contact elite sports, like boxing, rugby and ice hockey, did not experience the same benefits to life expectancy.
The UK's four Chief Medical Officers have published a refreshed edition of Physical activity
guidelines: UK Chief Medical Officers' report, updating the evidence that underpins the nation's
physical activity recommendations and placing greater emphasis on strength, balance, reducing
sedentary behaviour and, for the first time, supporting people taking weight loss medications.
Places Leisure has exchanged contracts to build and operate a flagship £60m water and leisure
destination on behalf of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council.
The Republic of Ireland will become the latest market in PureGym’s expanding international
portfolio, with the first launch planned for Dublin in 2027.
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CoverMe, the global leader in fitness workforce management, today launches CoverMe PT, an
on-demand personal training platform that connects the right personal trainer to the right
client in under 10 seconds. [more...]
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
disparate information from multiple systems to be aggregated into one dataset, to support
its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy. [more...]
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