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Fager 132's avatar

Since 2020 I've been really suspicious of "X% less likely to" statements. Less likely than what? Is that the relative or absolute risk reduction? I majored in English, not statistics, and I'm not going to pretend that I can parse studies well enough to catch design errors or appreciate all the implications, but I know that when they don't report efficacy in ARR terms as well as RRR they're leaving out important context.

David Kingsley, PhD's avatar

Good eye. These are retrospective studies, not double-blinded placebo controlled. They’re finding a correlation, not a causation. But the data seems fairly strong that metabolism impacts inflammatory proccesses.