Not exact matches
He pointed out that the estrogen fiasco was a foreseeable result of using weak
epidemiological data to
make sweeping pronouncements.
«I think this is a step towards
making sense out of a lot of
data — genetic
data, environmental
data,
epidemiological data — to help us understand factors that contribute to long and healthy life,» says Winifred Rossi, deputy director of the Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology at the National Institute on Aging, who wasn't involved in the study.
For this reason, WHO also uses clinical and
epidemiological data when
making risk assessments.
If we were to take
epidemiological data as fact we'd have to conclude that drownings in the US are caused by Nicholas Cage movies or that eating margarine
makes Mainers get divorced — or that organic food caused autism.
For the analysis,
data were
made use of to examine associations between dietary magnesium and various conditions from 40
epidemiological studies over a time period from 1999 to 2016.
A lot of the confusion is because
epidemiological research can not show cause and effect relationships and mistakes can easily be
made when drawing associations based on limited
data.