= 13, 8%). Figure 3 —Age groups studied in various field of research for the past 35 years. Sex and/or Gender More than half of the studies ( n = 91, 54%) included both male and female participants (see Table 1 ). Of the studies with both male and female athletes, 58 (64%) had more males than females
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