The 2012 Atherosclerosis egg study: More smoking is associated with more plaque, unless you eat more eggs
I blogged before about the study by David Spence and colleagues, published online in July 2012 in the journal Atherosclerosi…
December 2012
Does tallness cause heart disease? No, but sex does
Popular beliefs about medical issues are sometimes motivated by a statistical phenomenon known as “spurious relationship”, a…
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