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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 Atherosclerosis ( ). This stud...

Popular beliefs about medical issues are sometimes motivated by a statistical phenomenon known as “spurious relationship”, among other names...

Regardless of type of exercise, disease markers are generally associated with intensity of exertion over time. This association follows a J-...

The idea that heavy physical activity is a main trigger of heart attacks is widespread. Often endurance running and cardio-type activities...

The figure below combines data on median income by state (bottom-left and top-right), as well as a plot of heart disease death rates against...

This post is in response to an inquiry by Ivor (sorry for the delayed response). It refers to a recent study by Rantakömi and colleagues o...

If you are interested in the connection between blood glucose control and heart disease, you have probably done your homework. This is a sca...

This post has been revised and re-published . The original comments are preserved below.

I have been regularly recommending to users of the software HCE ( ) to include a column in their health data reflecting their alcohol consum...