Oh god, it's happening again That's not what this study found, it's not true, moderate drinking isn't good for you 1/https://twitter.com/BIAUS/status/1032062702124818433 …
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The study that's being reported here is a meta-analysis of 6 different observational trials looking at drinking habits in England and France 2/pic.twitter.com/kyXyB7CZrO
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This means that the researchers combined the data from 6 studies into one big analysis, and looked at the associations between drinking and heart disease 3/ You can find the study here: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-018-1123-6#Tab2 …
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What has previous research shown on this topic? Well, if you look at observational trials done in the last few years, you find a wildly mixed bag 4/
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I've written about this before. Essentially, depending on the number of confounding variables you control for, you either find moderate drinking to be protective or causative for heart disease 5/https://medium.com/@gidmk/the-myth-of-moderate-drinking-6c05687179d7 …
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Back to the study at hand. The researchers looked at moderate drinking and chronic heart disease, as well as heart disease deaths, in an observational trial. They controlled for only a few confounders in their analysis. Do you think they found moderate drinking to be: 6/
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Bit of an easy question there: moderate drinking was associated with a lower risk of heart disease and cardiovascular mortality. Not surprising 7/pic.twitter.com/YAAzs4vUus
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It's popular with a lot of people, because everyone loves to hear that our vices are good for us It's just not really plausible nor demonstrable in controlled settings
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