Another week, another large epidemiological trial taken wholly out of context by the media
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This is actually one of the first examples of a study that I really couldn't see much of a reason for
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The researchers calculated 'Anti-Inflammatory Diet Index' (AIDI) scores for people, and then looked at whether people who scored high fared better than people who scored low
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AIDI scores were based on these categories. I'm sure you can immediately see the big issue - these are all foods that we KNOW are related to social disadvantagepic.twitter.com/EVzEyLzfxf
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And while there were controls for confounders, it's pretty much impossible to exclude the possibility that the results that the researchers found were not due to something that they could not control for
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What were the results? Well, they look impressive at first glance - an 18% reduction in the group with the highest AIDI score!
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But, when you calculate the absolute risk, the difference is really quite insignificant - only 0.01% Hard to see how this could apply to individual diets
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As well as this, the research was in Swedish people over the age of 55 - not exactly an easily generalizable sample!
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And worst of all, the way that it was reported in the media was just atrocious. The study didn't really have anything to do with wine and chocolate at all!
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