Not a new idea, but the study is a nice summary of recent work in the area and demonstrates that the old gene-centric idea of
Tag: risk
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 its synthesis) is already known to be harmful
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 to traits such as height. Height (together with
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 increases the risk of bleeding in the GI
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 authors is calling aspirin “a promising anti-fibrotic strategy