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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 16 Dec 2019

      This is my favorite piece of nutritional epi nonsense for a while: - observational study - didn't measure chili consumption directly (!) - small absolute risk decrease (~1.5%) - probably nothing to do with the chili peppers!!!pic.twitter.com/jbTnVClBFU

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Dec 2019

      And yet, the headline implies that chili peppers will cause you to have less heart attacks THIS IS NONSENSE (In the journo's defense, this is made clear further on in the piece)

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Dec 2019

      Study is here: http://www.onlinejacc.org/content/74/25/3139 …

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Dec 2019

      I think the K-M curves from the study really say it all tho. The lines are barely different, and this is comparing highest chili consumption with lowestpic.twitter.com/SQhTPmh5YS

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Dec 2019

      Also, I cannot fathom how we can trust an assessment estimated from a single questionnaire (follow-up was 8.2 years) that doesn't specifically ask about chili consumption!pic.twitter.com/SDjLpVNlLn

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Dec 2019

      I talk a lot about whether headlines are misleading, but honestly I'm not sure you could ever have a non-misleading headline about a study that looked at whether *chili peppers* are *reducing heart attacks* ping @TamarHaspel

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Dec 2019

      Note: the study did indeed ask about chili consumption, the estimation was to do with how often people ate them This doesn't really change anything, but I was definitely wrong above 👍

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Dec 2019

      Also, forgot to mention that the study found no dose-response AT ALL The authors argued that this meant any chili eating was protective I would say this is because it has nothing to do with the chilispic.twitter.com/UQSoh5iBy2

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        1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 16 Dec 2019

          A final note is that the authors theorized that the benefits could be due to capsaicin content of chilies This is hilariously unlikely. If you're eating small amounts of chili ~4 times a week, you're getting minuscule amounts of capsaicinpic.twitter.com/SKVNkl9SMT

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        2. Ross Grayson, MPH, CIH‏ @EcoLogicalNet 16 Dec 2019
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        3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp 16 Dec 2019
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          Salam, please find the unroll here: Thread by @GidMK: This is my favorite piece of nutritional epi nonsense for a while: - observational study - didn't… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1206715693434953729.html …. See you soon. 🤖

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