Table 2.
Sport-specific all-cause, CVD and cancer pooled-SMR’s
| Endurance sports | Team sports | Power sports | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of athletes (%) | SMR (95% CI) | Heterogenous (Y/N) | Bias (Y/N) | Number of athletes (%) | SMR (95% CI) | Heterogenous (Y/N) | Bias (Y/N) | Number of athletes (%) | SMR (95% CI) | Heterogenous (Y/N) | Bias (Y/N) | |
| All-cause mortality | 53,476 (38.4%) | 0.65 (0.54–0.77) | Y | N | 78,504 (56.4%) | 0.68 (0.57–0.81) | Y | Y | 2826 (2.0%) | 1.04 (0.91–1.12) | Y | N |
| CVD mortality | 50,788 (38.4%) | 0.63 (0.44–0.91) | Y | N | 65,078 (55.0%) | 0.76 (0.64–0.92) | Y | N | 1885 (1.6%) | 1.10 (0.86–1.40) | Y | N |
| Cancer mortality | 50,511 (38.8%) | 0.73 (0.50–1.07) | Y | N | 65,280 (53.3%) | 0.73 (0.57–0.93) | Y | N | 1185 (1.5%) | 0.51 (0.35–0.75) | N | N |
SMR standardised mortality ratio, CI confidence interval, Y yes, N no
All SMR’s in bold indicate a significant difference compared to the general population (p < 0.05). An analysis was deemed heterogeneous based on a combination of the I2 and Q statistics and if the p value was ≤ 0.05. An analysis was deemed not biased if the p value derived from the eggers test was ≥ 0.05. More detail can be found in the Supplementary Files Online