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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 May 2019

      I really want to yell at this headline but also this study is incredibly complex so I feel a lot of sympathy for the journalists who are writing about ithttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7047287/UKs-spiralling-obesity-crisis-lead-liver-disease-boom.html …

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 May 2019

      Study is here: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-019-1321-x#MOESM1 …

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 May 2019

      The main issue is that the headline is based on a subgroup analysis that showed that people with diabetes and NASH/NAFLD were at a higher risk of serious liver outcomes than people with no diabetespic.twitter.com/loLsIV5OBv

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 May 2019

      Two problems here: 1. The absolute risk increase for HCC/cirrhosis and diabetes vs no diabetes was ~0.06% 2. This was a small subgroup analysis in a much larger study, not nearly as rigorous as the main findings

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 May 2019

      It's hard to get the exact figures, but it seems like this subgroup analysis was based off a very small proportion of the total sample (people with diabetes, HCC/cirrhosis, AND NAFLD/NASH information available)

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 May 2019

      Talking about this as a study in 18 million people is just factually incorrect, but the complexities of why that is are really hard to grasp

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 May 2019

          IMO you'd need at least a solid understanding of epidemiology and NAFLD/NASH to even read this study, can't see how a journalist without that background is meant to dopic.twitter.com/hcjbMiM0e2

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 May 2019

          My guess is that most of the copy was taken almost word-for-word from the press release Not ideal journalism? Maybe. But what else are they meant to do, start an MPH?

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 May 2019

          Health Nerd Retweeted Chris Chambers

          For more background on this issue, read @chrisdc77's mega-thread and linked paper on press releases and their importance in science communication to the mediahttps://twitter.com/chrisdc77/status/1130250993973846017 …

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          Chris ChambersVerified account @chrisdc77
          You can read the full paper here. It is preregistered, with #opendata and #openmaterials https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-019-1324-7 … /89
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