Childhood cancers are awful, and very hard to prevent, but this still represents a truly miniscule risk increase and only for a small group of women
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Also, the headlines talking about OBESITY are wrong There was NO risk increase for women over 30 Kg/m^2 - medical obesity. The risk was only seen in women >40 Kg/m^2, which is quite a bit heavier
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There was also no control in the model for most confounding (they only controlled for age and race), which leaves the door wide open for alternate explanations
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Maybe more obese women are less wealthy, and therefore their kids are exposed to more carcinogens Maybe it's a whole host of complex social factors and we just aren't sure what's going onpic.twitter.com/MscqXrIeAb
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This is the kind of study that begs for further research, because the amount you can glean from it is remarkably small
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There are already well-known risks to maternal obesity, so adding another one - especially one as small as this - isn't going to change anyone's practice
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Losing weight is almost always good for your health, particularly if your BMI is over 40 This study adds almost nothing to that statement
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It looks like that one did try to control for weight loss, but without reading it really closely hard to know how much was due to weight loss or other things
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Have you read the new Lancet paper on calorie restriction?? Love to get your thoughts. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(19)30151-2/fulltext …
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Lol I was just skimming it because of Liam's comment. No time to go through it now, but I'll have a look eventually
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