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🔥off the press. Our study in @JAMANetworkOpen of 6039 former NHL players looking at the long term consequences of fighting in the NHL. Enforcers dying a decade younger than their peers. #stopthefight🏒👊🏻🥅
JAMA Network Open@JAMANetworkOpen
The risk of fighting and repetitive head trauma are concerns for @NHL player safety advocates. NHL enforcers with ≥50 career fights or ≥3 penalty minutes per game died 10 years earlier, more often of drug overdose and suicide. ja.ma/42nrRyb
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