TY - JOUR TI - The heart of the matter: years-saved from cardiovascular and cancer deaths in an elite athlete cohort with over a century of follow-up AU - Antero-Jacquemin, Juliana AU - Pohar-Perme, Maja AU - Rey, Grégoire AU - Toussaint, Jean-François AU - Latouche, Aurélien T2 - European Journal of Epidemiology AB - To quantify the years of life saved from cardiovascular (CVD), cancer and overall deaths among elite athletes according to their main type of physiological effort performed in the Olympic Games. All French athletes participating in the Games from 1912 to 2012, with vital status validated and cause of death (if concerned) identified by the national registries were included (n = 2814, 455 died) and classified according to 6 groups of effort: POWER (continuous effort