I just published Blueberries Can’t Treat Heart Disease #health #sciencehttps://link.medium.com/9VT3iydafX
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The FMD and arterial stiffness tests were only performed on a smaller group of the total patients (n~85) and the improvements in HDL were in a subgroup analysis excluding statin users. I think it's a bit problematic to report these as if they were the primary study outcomes
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Particularly as they were mostly marginally significant (p=0.04) and only evident for the higher dose of blueberries. The lower dose actually decreased performance on some tests!
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yeah, it seems likely from the quotes I saw that the authors drove at least some of the excessive enthusiasm in the reporting. Shady sci comm at least
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I don't think it's even sci comm. The discussion and abstract barely touch on the fact that they didn't find any benefit for ~most~ markers of heart disease/diabetes, and makes some really unsubstantiated claims
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