New study on celiac and MC

Zizzle · Post by **Zizzle** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:09 pm

A new study links celiac and MC, especially among middle aged women, but I'm not too moved about the study outcomes (yawn). Nothing we don't already know. But hopefully some docs will take notice.
Had they looked for gluten intolerance and not simply confirmed celiac, the association would have been much stronger.

http://www.celiac.com/articles/22610/1/ ... Page1.html

Post by **tex** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:42 am

That was a pretty simple "research" project, so it's no wonder that they didn't come up with any earth-shaking conclusions. All they did was to look at 5 years worth of data from the Calgary Health Region, and noted the number of patients diagnosed with CD, who also had MC.

Not a very creative project - it's been done before, probably several times, (using different databases), over the years, with very similar results. Why don't "researchers" actually research any more? They did the same thing that you and I do every day - scan databases on a computer, looking for information that has already been recorded. You would think that if they wanted to earn the title of "researcher", the least they could do is come up with a project that shows a little originality.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/743 ... mp&spon=20

Tex

sarkin · Post by **sarkin** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:44 am

...and if they're motivated to be original, they might as well come on over here, and we'll give 'em some GREAT ideas - I can think of all kinds of ways to re-parse some data they may just have lying around, in a way that might shed new light. Heh.

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:09 am

Totally agree with Tex and Sara. It was a real ho-hum "study."

Love, Maggie