Tag: risk
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Vegans and vegetarians have a higher risk of stroke
A good reminder that vegetables are not as benign, let alone as healthy, as your board-certified, PhD-boasting,…
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Parents’ emotional trauma may change their children’s biology
Not a new idea, but the study is a nice summary of recent work in the area…
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Statins more than double the risk of diabetes compared to non-users
Yet another damning study on the toxic effects of drugs whose main effect (lowering cholesterol by blocking…
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GWAS predicting height are bunk; same likely the case for disease-prediction
Another study calls into question the validity of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), at least when it comes…
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Aspirin actually decreases risk of bleeding in the brain
As many readers know, one of the scary stories Big Pharma tells about aspirin is that it…
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Daily aspirin reduces by 37% risk of fatty liver progressing into cirrhosis
Another great study about aspirin. What I particularly like about this study is that one of the…