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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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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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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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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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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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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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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