Mortality (all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and cancer) and longevity in former elite athletes with prof. Melitta Mcnarry | EP#302

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Professor Melitta Mcnarry of Swansea University has recently published a meta-analysis on the health and mortality (all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and cancer) consequences of an elite sporting career. Here, she discusses the findings and the potential implications. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -Reasons for conducting the meta-analysis, including questions marks around whether a high amount of exercise might be detrimental rather than beneficial for health and longevity -The significantly reduced mortality in elite athletes, in particular endurance athletes and team sport athletes -Potential reasons for the reduced mortality -The relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness and protection against cardiovascular disease -Potential reasons for why elite endurance athletes had greatly reduced cardiovascular disease mortality, but no difference compared to the general population for cancer mortality SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts302/ SCIENTIFIC TRIATHLON AND THAT TRIATHLON SHOW WEBPAGE: www.scientifictriathlon.com/podcast/ SPONSORS: Precision Hydration - Want to optimise your performance in hot or humid conditions, avoid cramping, and make sure your hydration is on point? Take PH's free online Sweat Test to get personalised hydration strategy. Also use the Quick Carb Calculator to get fueling recommendations, and book a free one-on-one consultation to refine your hydration and fueling strategy. Use the promo code THATTRIATHLONSHOW15 to get 15% off your first order of PH electrolytes or the Precision Fuel range. ROKA - Exceptional quality triathlon wetsuits, trisuits, swimskins, goggles, performance sunglasses as well as prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses. Online vision test for prescription updates and home try-on options available for eyeglasses. Ships from the US, UK and EU. Trusted by world-leading athletes such as Lucy Charles-Barclay, Javier Gómez Noya, Flora Duffy, Morgan Pearson, Summer Rappaport and others in triathlon, cycling, speed skating, and many more. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order. LINKS AND RESOURCES: Melitta's Twitter, Research Gate, and Swansea University profiles Health Consequences of an Elite Sporting Career: Long-Term Detriment or Long-Term Gain? A Meta-Analysis of 165,000 Former Athletes - Runacres, Mackintosh and Mcnarry 2021 RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

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0:00.0	The Traathlon Show, 302.
0:05.2	Hey, hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome another episode of that triathlon show, the podcast presented by
0:24.5	Scientific Traathlon.com.
0:26.9	I'm our host Michael, and on today's episode, I interview Professor Melita McNary of Swansea University.
0:32.3	Professor McNary and her team have recently published a meta-analysis regarding the consequences of an elite sporting
0:38.6	career on mortality, including all-cost mortality as well as mortality caused by cardiovascular
0:44.0	disease and cancer. So in this interview, we discuss the findings, the results of that
0:50.1	meta-analysis and what it means. And of course, even though the subjects of this meta-analysis were elite athletes,
0:58.3	the reason that I think it's interesting to have this sort of topic on the podcast
1:01.8	is because as endurance athletes, a lot of the listener base of this podcast
1:06.1	will actually be training quite a lot.
1:08.8	And it starts to get interesting and you might start to think
1:12.2	that there might be overlapping aspects of just generally training a lot and it doesn't necessarily
1:17.6	have to be just being an elite athlete and therefore there might be some similar implications
1:23.3	although as we discuss in the interview you might not want to draw such conclusions directly
1:28.0	but nevertheless it's very interesting i think for all endurance athletes who by default train quite a lot
1:35.0	i'll link in the show notes to the to the study which is open access and it's called health
1:40.2	consequences or elite sporting career long-term detriment or long-term gain, a meta-analysis
1:45.6	of 165,000 former athletes. Now before we get into the interview, big thanks to our sponsors,
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