The associations between participation in certain sports and lower mortality are not explained by affluence and other socioeconomic factors

Stamatakis, Emmanuel; Kelly, Paul; Titze, Sylvia; Pedisic, Zeljko; Bauman, Adrian; Foster, Charlie E.; Hamer, Mark; Hillsdon, Melvyn; Oja, Pekka

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The associations between participation in certain sports and lower mortality are not explained by affluence and other socioeconomic factors

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posted on 2017-01-26, 14:19 authored by Emmanuel Stamatakis, Paul Kelly, Sylvia Titze, Zeljko Pedisic, Adrian Bauman, Charlie E. Foster, Mark Hamer, Melvyn Hillsdon, Pekka Oja

The associations between participation in certain sports and lower mortality are not explained by affluence and other socioeconomic factors

History

School

Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Citation

STAMATAKIS, E. ... et al, 2017. The associations between participation in certain sports and lower mortality are not explained by affluence and other socioeconomic factors. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 51(21), pp.1514-1515.

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BMJ Publishing Group. © Article author(s) (or their employer(s).

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AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-01-05

Publication date

2017

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal British Journal of Sports Medicine and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2016-097411.