Precocity predicts shorter life for major league baseball players: Confirmation of McCann's precocity-longevity hypothesis

Death Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 933-940

  Abel, Ernest L ^a,b   Kruger, Michael L ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; BODY MASS; DEATH; HUMAN; LIFE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ACHIEVEMENT; AGE FACTORS; BASEBALL; BODY MASS INDEX; DEATH; HUMANS; LIFE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34648846505     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180701603428     Document Type: Article

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