The associations between participation in certain sports and lower mortality are not explained by affluence and other socioeconomic factors

Affiliations

• ¹ Charles Perkins Centre, Prevention Research Collaboration, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• ² Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ³ Institute of Sport Sciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
• ⁴ Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁵ Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ⁶ School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
• ⁷ Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
• ⁸ UKK Institute, Tampere, Finland.