Health span in former football players versus general population (IMAGE)

Harvard Medical School

Health span in former football players versus general population

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Former NFL players may have shorter health spans - defined as absence of age-related disease - compared with men in the general population, according to a new study

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Rachel Grashow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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