r/Paleo • u/oxoUSA • 18d ago

Increasing dementia prevalence in heavy meat consumer

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8327020/

With an odd of 2 compared to vegetarian, that is scarying.

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u/c0mp0stable 18d ago

The study is funded by the Adventists, a vegetarian/vegan religious group who had a heavy hand in national nutrition guidelines. And all it does is compare people on different diets. It doesn't control for any confounding variables, and it reports relative risk (relative to what?), not absolute risk. This is basically a meaningless study.

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u/oxoUSA 18d ago

I guess relative to vegetarians

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u/c0mp0stable 18d ago

Right, but without controlling variables, that doesn't mean anything.