TY - JOUR AU1 - Nuzzo, James L. AU2 - Powney, Deborah AU3 - Barry, John AB - Sports Medicine https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-023-01865-6 LE T TER TO  THE   EDITOR Comment on: “Gender‑Based Violence is a Blind Spot for Sports and Exercise Medicine Professionals” 1 2 3 James L. Nuzzo  · Deborah Powney  · John Barry Accepted: 12 May 2023 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 Dear Editor, Decades of research from outside of sports and exercise medicine have shown that men and women are victims of Recently, Wheatley and colleagues [1] authored a paper IPV in heterosexual relationships at roughly equal rates. titled “Gender-Based Violence is a Blind Spot for Sports Desmarais et al. [3] reviewed 243 studies on IPV in hetero- and Exercise Medical Professionals.” They began their sexual relationships and discovered “approximately 1 in 4 paper with a one-paragraph discussion about sexual vio- woman (23.1%) and 1 in 5 men (19.3%) experience physical lence in sport and the American Medical Society’s posi- violence in an intimate relationship.” Fiebert [4] published tion on the topic [2]. They then transitioned to a broader an annotated bibliography of 270 studies and 73 reviews on discussion about “gender-based violence” (GBV), including IPV with an aggregate sample of 440,850 individuals and sexual violence and intimate partner violence (IPV). Unlike concluded “women are as physically TI - Comment on: “Gender-Based Violence is a Blind Spot for Sports and Exercise Medicine Professionals” JF - Sports Medicine DO - 10.1007/s40279-023-01865-6 DA - 2023-08-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/comment-on-gender-based-violence-is-a-blind-spot-for-sports-and-sNh90JCSwV SP - 1495 EP - 1497 VL - 53 IS - 8 DP - DeepDyve ER -