MONTREAL A study of former National Hockey League players shows that enforcers who spent a lot of time dropping their gloves or in the penalty box lived significantly shorter lives than their peers.
MONTREAL - A study of former National Hockey League players shows that enforcers who spent a lot of time dropping their gloves or in the penalty box lived significantly shorter lives than their peers.
The study was published Wednesday in the JAMA Network Open medical journal and analyzed a sample of 6,039 NHL players from 1969 to last spring. Dr. Charles Popkin of the of the Columbia University Medical Center led the research team.
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