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A Swedish study of 10,693 ACL reconstructions in registered football players found no link between graft type and revision surgery. Age and playing level mattered far more.
The same audit found high-performance female athletes well represented in the field — and that the studies generating prevalence figures lean on self-reported food records and MET lookup tables.
Pooling five studies that confirmed cycle phase by hormone testing, researchers found no significant VO2 max difference between phases, though the base is too thin to rule an effect out.
In 388 female athletes, a per cent fat Z-score below −1.0 more than doubled sensitivity for amenorrhoea against standard BMI thresholds. It gave up specificity to do it.
Three BJSM reviews underpinning the FAIR consensus pooled 1.5 million participants and 108 concussion studies. Women and girls were 2.4% of the lower-limb evidence base.