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Jun 26, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Low TG-high HDL-C and risk of ischemic heart disease.
2001, n=2906, male subjects.
"Men with conventional risk factors for IHD have a low risk of IHD if they have low TG/HDL-C ratio."
There are some interesting stats hidden here: 1/n jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
47% of the low TG/HDL group were smokers, compared with 57% in both the other categories (see table 1), but alcohol intake was higher (20 vs 16 drinks/week)
Apr 18, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
"Even moderate red and processed meat eaters at risk of bowel cancer" screams the headline. But how true is this? 1) everyone in the study, average age 55 at the start was at risk of bowel cancer - a risk of 0.5% over 6.7 years. cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cance…2) those eating most meat or processed meat had a bowel cancer risk of about 0.6%
That's an increase in risk of 0.1% (or 20% in relative terms. But wait, there's more. academic.oup.com/ije/advance-ar…
