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This chapter provides a preliminary and limited test of the study hypotheses regarding the relationship between race/Hispanic origin and mortality risk. Controlling only for year of birth, African-American and Hispanic players have an elevated risk for all-cause mortality relative to non-Hispanic white players. This increased mortality risk is more robust for African-American (38%) than it is for Hispanic players (21%). Additional analyses are required before reaching any final conclusions with respect to the hypotheses . This will be addressed in Chaps. 7–9.
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Markowitz, J.S. (2019). Preliminary Testing of Main Study Hypotheses. In: Mortality Among Hispanic and African-American Players After Desegregation in Major League Baseball. SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17280-0_6
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