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. 2021 Jun 4;100(22):e25978. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000025978

Table 2.

Characteristics of physically active individuals.

Study Year Total Mean age Population ERP%
Reinhard[22] 2019 623 21.0 ± 5.0 Elite athletes who were examined in the outpatient clinic of the Department of Prevention and Sports Medicine, Technical University Munich, Germany. 17.3
Miragoli[46] 2019 414 13.6 ± 1.8 Non-professional healthy adolescent athletes 22.2
Roche[47] 2018 2508 24.0 ± 5.0 Recruits of the French Foreign Legion who were healthy and physically active men 19.5
Malhotra[48] 2015 66 NA Actively training Indian athletes training for competitive sports in one of the premier training institutes of Indian Armed Forces between July 2012 and August 2012 42.4
Kiss[49] 2015 227 27.2 ± 8.7 Asymptomatic elite, non-elite and master athletes in Hungarian 64.3
Brosnan[50] 2015 726 16.0−40.0 Non-Caucasian Australian male athletes (173) Caucasian male athletes (553) 36.8
Serra-Grima[51] 2015 299 ERP (+): 20.5 ± 6.4ERP (−): 20.1 ± 6.4 White elite athletes recruited between 1960 and 1999 31.4
Vinsonneau[52] 2015 250 22.9 ± 0.5 Healthy military officers aged over 17 years, Caucasians and practicing at least two hours of sport per week 19.2
Aagaard [53] 2014 151 50.0 ± 5.0 Physically active middle-age males who had registered for first-time participation in the 2010 cross-country race and lived in the Greater Stockholm area 44.4
Vinsonneau[54] 2013 746 29.0 ± 10.3 Caucasian military officers incorporated or engaged in French Navy units in Brittany from November 2010 to November 2011 13.8
Noseworthy[55] 2011 879 18.4 ± 0.8 Student athletes ≥18 years old who were official participants in competitive inter-collegiate athletics between 2006 and 2010 25.1
Junttila[56] 2011 503 17.0−24.0 Athletes at the University of Miami in 2000 29.8
Ouali[57] 2011 540 18.3 ± 2.4 Athletes in the Central Sports Medicine Centre of El Menzah in Tunisia, 100% white Arabs 22.0
Bianco[58] 2001 155 30.9 ± 10.1 Top-ranking male Caucasian athletes 89.7