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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Why isn’t the scandal of relative risk better known about ? It makes a mockery of most medical and pharmaceutical “research” doesn’t it ?
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If you ask the man on the street what the average intervention might have on their heart disease / obesity/ diabetes they expect a double or triple effect . What they might get is a 0.001% effect , the sort of risks they can take by just getting out of bed too fast !
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Nahhhh that's not really true, particularly for high-risk groups. Statins are a great example - in low-risk groups the decrease in risk is debatable, but in high-risk groups the benefit is undeniable
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In any case , if all journalists simply read and understood
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