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High School Football and Adult Health

NCT03914573 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 3355

Last updated 2019-04-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The primary aim of the study is to determine the effect of playing high school football on self-rated health in late adulthood. This is an observational study that will use data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a longitudinal cohort of high school graduates from 1957, to compare graduates who played high school football with comparable graduates who did not play football on self-rated health, pain, functional ability, and weight at the age of 65 years.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Timothy Gaulton, MD · University of Pennsylvania

  • Sameer Deshpande, PhD · Massachusetts Insitute of Technology

  • Dylan Small, PhD · University of Pennsylvania

  • Mark D Neuman, MD · University of Pennsylvania

Eligibility

Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1957-01-31
Primary Completion
2003-12-31
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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