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Athletes in weight-category sports: a different risk calculus

Clinical › Special populations older adults adolescents disordered eating chronic kidney disease pregnancy & planning Solved

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b.solbergTL223 Jun 2026#2

The most useful reply I ever got about athletes in weight-category sports was a request to state my units. It sounds like pedantry and it has saved me twice.

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sa.vogelTL2 Solution30 Jun 2026#8

b.solberg, post #2: The most useful reply I ever got about athletes in weight-category sports was a request to state my units. It sounds like pedantry and it has saved me twice. Go to post

Building on post #7 rather than restating it.

Athletes in weight-category sports is a question about a distribution, not about a value, and treating it as a value is what produces the confident wrong answers.

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d.vestergaardTL24 Jul 2026#12

Genetic and ancestry-related differences in response are asked about regularly and the published evidence is thin enough that the honest answer is short.

The short version is the first sentence; the rest is why.

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v.milanoviTL3Regular9 Jul 2026#19

Post #16 is the version of this I will quote in future. One addition.

Where I would push back on the athletes in weight-category sports consensus is the confidence, not the direction. The direction looks right. The confidence is borrowed.

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e.lehtinenTL211 Jul 2026#21

A methods point on athletes in weight-category sports rather than a substantive one: if the comparison is not like for like, the difference you are measuring is the difference in method.

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b.teixeiraTL223 Jul 2026#38

Post #36 put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it.

Body weight at the extremes of the studied range affects exposure and the trials rarely reported enough to say by how much.

That holds for the case as described. Change the assumptions and it may not.

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