After this we have the tired old canards of shoddy reporting; poor understanding of risk ratios, over-reliance on p-values etc
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In this particular study's case, there WAS no effect of diet drinks on dementia. All the articles were wronghttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/857092472379506688 …
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When the authors controlled for other risks (such as diabetes), the significance disappearedhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/857092472379506688 …
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That leaves us with stroke, for which the authors did find a significant association with diet drinks
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And whilst this is interesting, there was sufficient information in their study to infer that it wasn't actually due to the diet drinks
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For example, the authors didn't control for BMI (even though they had this information), but BMI was higher in diet drinkers
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So it's very likely that it was actually BMI (a known risk factor) that was the major influence on stroke, not diet drinks
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This is backed up by the fact that there was no biological gradient; the risk from drinking diet drinks didn't increase the more you drank
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The confidence intervals (a stats measure) were all also huge, meaning that a lot of these findings are just *barely* significant
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And remember, statistical significance doesn't always mean very much at all https://tincture.io/an-insignificant-blog-post-570f9aa6bc5d …
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Let me know if you'd like me to actually do this, I've been seeing a study at least once a weekhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/857091846438367232 …
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But to sum up; don't worry about diet drinks. Current best evidence is that they'll only cause a stroke if they're pegged at your head.
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