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摘要

Professional football is a game played predominantly by very large men. While the body mass index (BMI) of these men can be deceptively high because of their large muscle mass, a playing weight BMI greater than 30 was found to double the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality after retirement from the NFL (1). Trexler and colleagues (2) used data from the Health Survey of Retired NFL Players to examine if increases in BMI after retirement from professional football increased the risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD), type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), or high blood pressure (HBP).