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Antibiotics in infancy linked to IBD
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Antibiotics in infancy linked to IBD
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LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
LDN July 18, 2014
Joan
Interesting article, Joan. I thought it explained my daughter's IBS until I read this:
The "three times more likely to get IBD" statistic had to have come from averaging the "nearly seven times more likely" risk of the boys with the zero times more likely risk of the girls.
It may be that girls also have an associated risk, but this study doesn't show that.
I'm reading this in a hurry, so perhaps I've missed something.
Gloria
IMHO the title of the article should have been Antibiotic Use By Boys in 1st Year Is Associated With Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Boys with IBD were nearly seven times more likely to have been prescribed antibiotics in infancy than boys without IBD. But there appeared to be no link between IBD and antibiotic use in girls.
The "three times more likely to get IBD" statistic had to have come from averaging the "nearly seven times more likely" risk of the boys with the zero times more likely risk of the girls.
It may be that girls also have an associated risk, but this study doesn't show that.
I'm reading this in a hurry, so perhaps I've missed something.
Gloria
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
Gloria,
You definitely have the eye of a mathematician.
Excellent observation.
Of course, that begs the question, "Why do researchers draw such stupid conclusions, when the literal truth would be so much more meaningful? Do they doubt the validity of their work, or what? Why cloud the issue by such a skewed conclusion?
I had to look twice to make sure that the article wasn't written by someone at the Mayo.
Tex
You definitely have the eye of a mathematician.
Excellent observation.Of course, that begs the question, "Why do researchers draw such stupid conclusions, when the literal truth would be so much more meaningful? Do they doubt the validity of their work, or what? Why cloud the issue by such a skewed conclusion?
I had to look twice to make sure that the article wasn't written by someone at the Mayo.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.