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The researchers compared American male astronauts and a group of men of the same degree of fitness and wealth, benefiting from excellent health care and professional athletes.
The research team wrote in a journal "Occupational and Environmental Medicine" Astronauts are generally characterized by a remarkable amount of education, wealth, and fitness compared to other Americans, and are linked by previous research between the profession and reduced opportunities. Early death.
But Robert Reynolds co-researcher at the Center for Mortality Research California, Stated that many previous studies on astronaut mortality rates have not taken into account the mental and physical demands of the profession.
The researchers compared mortality rates among pioneers Space Male and professional basketball and baseball players between 1960 and mid-year, and astronauts and athletes were less likely to die earlier than others.
The study found that astronauts are more likely to die from accidents or other external causes, and that opportunities are less likely heart disease And other causes of natural death.
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The researchers compared American male astronauts and a group of men of the same degree of fitness and wealth, benefiting from excellent health care and professional athletes.
Astronauts are generally more educated, richer and physically fit than other Americans, and previous research has linked this occupation to a lower probability of premature death, said the research team in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. .
But Robert Reynolds, co-author of the California Center for Death Research's study, said many previous studies of astronaut mortality rates did not take into account the mental and physical demands of the profession.
The researchers compared mortality rates of male astronauts and professional basketball and baseball players between 1960 and mid-year. Astronauts and athletes were less likely to die prematurely.
The study found that astronauts are more likely to die from accidents or other external causes and less likely to have heart disease and other natural causes of death.
