More accurately; "Scientists discover compound found in wine changes blood test results ever so slightly in a tiny sample" #sciencereportinghttps://twitter.com/australian/status/788505842974720000 …
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Replying to @GidMK
First things first; they had 34 participants, 4 drop-outs. That is a TINY sample with which to detect any kind of effect
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If you look at the article itself http://press.endocrine.org/doi/pdf/10.1210/jc.2016-1858 … you'll notice that they measure a LOT variables; 22 to be exact
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They also fail to mention that a participant dropped out of the placebo group due to pregnanct, which seems pretty important in context
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They also fail to mention that there were a number of significant differences btwn groups at baseline, in particular cholesterol!
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There was no analysis including drop-outs (intention-to-treat) usually considered best practice
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The absolute (and unreported) difference in hormone levels was also less than half the relative decrease
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All of this is not to say it's bad science; the study itself was done well. But the results have been blown out of all proportion
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A realistic conclusion would be; "resveratrol may have some benefit in PCOS/fertility, but larger studies are needed to demonstrate this"
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