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 |