Slow hand clap for the Metro for this headline. Very responsible reporting. We wouldn't want smokers quitting, would we?
https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/07/smokers-switch-e-cigarettes-twice-likely-stroke-study-warns-12014509 …
This is true, which is why the absolute risk difference is very small. All of the prevalence data is in Table 1, in total there appear to have been about 1,300 strokes in the sample (of ~161,000)pic.twitter.com/yypKrgYIIE
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That being said, there were sufficient numbers for statistical purposes, I'd say the bigger issue is that the study was cross-sectional so hard to make causal inferences here
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It’s surprising that the ex-smokers didn’t see their risk fall by more.
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