
DR MARC SIEGEL: The health and times of Hulk Hogan
Fox News
Despite health challenges, Hulk Hogan remained an inspirational figure in pro-wrestling with his larger-than-life personality, famous 'Rocky III' appearance, and physical vitality.
Marc Siegel, M.D. is a professor of medicine and medical director of Doctor Radio at NYU Langone Medical Center. He is Fox News Channel's senior medical analyst and author of "COVID: The Politics of Fear and the Power of Science." Follow him on Twitter @drmarcsiegel.
Hogan came from a group of professional wrestlers who have a high incidence of steroid and drug use, suicide, and heart disease. In fact, according to a study from the University of Eastern Michigan, mortality rates for wrestlers ages 45 to 54 (men who wrestled from 1985 to 2011 during the era when Hogan was wrestling) were almost three times more likely to die prematurely than the general U.S. population. And those numbers increased the older the wrestler was. Many of these men didn’t even make it to their seventies.













