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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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 …
Health Nerd added,
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When the authors controlled for other risks (such as diabetes), the significance disappearedhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/857092472379506688 …
Health Nerd added,
That leaves us with stroke, for which the authors did find a significant association with diet drinks
And whilst this is interesting, there was sufficient information in their study to infer that it wasn't actually due to the diet drinks
For example, the authors didn't control for BMI (even though they had this information), but BMI was higher in diet drinkers
So it's very likely that it was actually BMI (a known risk factor) that was the major influence on stroke, not diet drinks
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
The confidence intervals (a stats measure) were all also huge, meaning that a lot of these findings are just *barely* significant
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 …
Health Nerd added,
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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