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Berger, K.* ; Baurecht, H.* ; Stein, M.* ; Heise, J.K.* ; Castell, S.* ; Weisser, L.* ; Schikowski, T.* ; Oliver, K.* ; Lieb, W.* ; Micolajczyk, R.* ; Kluttig, A.* ; Schmitt, B.* ; Stang, A.* ; Pischon, T.* ; Peters, A. ; Brenner, H.* ; Leitzmann, M.* ; Krist, L.* ; Keil, T.* ; Karch, A.* ; Meyer, T.*

SoccHealth: A health status examination of former professional football (soccer) players within the German National Cohort.

BMJ Open Sport Exerc. Med. 10:e002228 (2024)

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The long-term health effects of football (soccer) have received significant attention in recent years. While brain health is currently the focus of this interest, potential long-term risks or benefits related to cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and cancer are also of interest to sports medicine professionals. However, studies assessing the overall health risks for professional football players remain scarce. We introduce 'SoccHealth', a satellite project to the German National Cohort (NAKO), Germany's largest population-based cohort study. SoccHealth examined 348 former professional football players aged 40-69 using the infrastructure and comprehensive examination programme of NAKO. The German Statutory Accidental Insurance for Professional Athletes identified and invited male players, while female players were recruited among former national team members. Details of the examination programme and the sociodemographic and career-related characteristics of the participants are described. The identical examination programme for the NAKO participants provides the opportunity to draw general population controls according to various definitions and focus on the respective research question to be analysed. This report delineates one approach to evaluate the long-term health effects of football across a broad range of diseases.

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