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Female and male US Olympic athletes live 5 years longer than their general population counterparts: a study of 8124 former US Olympians https://bjsm.bmj.com/co

Female and male US Olympic athletes live 5 years longer than their general population counterparts: a study of 8124 former US Olympians https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/4/206 https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/55/4/206

thesz 4y ago
What about USSR Olympic athletes? Especially before USSR collapse. Salient words at the very start of the article are "former athletes... suffer from poverty". East German Olympic athletes suffered poverty, which is a risk factor in any part of the world. That's why I am asking about USSR statistics before USSR collapse - at that time weightlifters were treated very well, much like at US today, if not better.
- smcl 4y ago
  It may be a little hard to do this though, the athletes often weren't aware they were doping and to what degree, so you don't really have a good way to split them into doped/non-doped cohorts to do this sort of analysis.
  - thesz 4y ago
    I am talking about poverty, primarily. Athletes from Eastern Germany were trown into poverty when two halves of Germany reunited. Using USSR and/or Eastern Germany athletes prior to the reunion would provide some kind of baseline to compare to. As well as contemporary US athletes.
BLanen 4y ago
Yea but the (former) East German population lives a lot healthier than the general US population.
- woodpanel 4y ago
  While Eastern Germans on average lived >4 years longer than a USAmerican in 1991, that lead has evaporated as of now: US citizens live a couple of months longer than Eastern Germans (and Western Germans). [1] https://www.rki.de/EN/Content/Health_Monitoring/Health_Reporting/GBEDownloadsJ/JoHM_S02_2019_30_years_after_fall_Berlin_Wall.pdf?__blob=publicationFile https://www.rki.de/EN/Content/Health_Monitoring/Health_Repor... [2] https://datacommons.org/place/country/USA?utm_medium=explore&mprop=lifeExpectancy&popt=Person&hl=en# https://datacommons.org/place/country/USA?utm_medium=explore...

thesz 4y ago

What about USSR Olympic athletes? Especially before USSR collapse. Salient words at the very start of the article are "former athletes... suffer from poverty". East German Olympic athletes suffered poverty, which is a risk factor in any part of the world. That's why I am asking about USSR statistics before USSR collapse - at that time weightlifters were treated very well, much like at US today, if not better.

smcl 4y ago
It may be a little hard to do this though, the athletes often weren't aware they were doping and to what degree, so you don't really have a good way to split them into doped/non-doped cohorts to do this sort of analysis.
- thesz 4y ago
  I am talking about poverty, primarily. Athletes from Eastern Germany were trown into poverty when two halves of Germany reunited. Using USSR and/or Eastern Germany athletes prior to the reunion would provide some kind of baseline to compare to. As well as contemporary US athletes.

BLanen 4y ago

Yea but the (former) East German population lives a lot healthier than the general US population.

woodpanel 4y ago
While Eastern Germans on average lived >4 years longer than a USAmerican in 1991, that lead has evaporated as of now: US citizens live a couple of months longer than Eastern Germans (and Western Germans). [1] https://www.rki.de/EN/Content/Health_Monitoring/Health_Reporting/GBEDownloadsJ/JoHM_S02_2019_30_years_after_fall_Berlin_Wall.pdf?__blob=publicationFile https://www.rki.de/EN/Content/Health_Monitoring/Health_Repor... [2] https://datacommons.org/place/country/USA?utm_medium=explore&mprop=lifeExpectancy&popt=Person&hl=en# https://datacommons.org/place/country/USA?utm_medium=explore...