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Or these men simply lead more active lives with regular exercise. Hard to tell.
by fegu 3y ago
Or these men simply lead more active lives with regular exercise. Hard to tell.
- _flux 3y agoWouldn't taking these kind of factors into account be quite basic part of the analysis? Of course, they cannot take everything into account.
- ant6n 3y agoWell, unless you lead a non-active life and hope to improve your health by taking viagra without the accompanying extra in activity.
- lm28469 3y agoThe problem with a lot modern science is that you're dealing with a virtually infinite numbers of variables both environmentally, behaviourally and genetically. Short of having a thousand identical twins locked up in a room from birth you're swimming against a very strong tide. Long gone are the days when science was as simple as castrating a rooster and grafting his balls back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Adolph_Berthold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Adolph_Berthold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
- helsinkiandrew 3y ago> Wouldn't taking these kind of factors into account be quite basic part of the analysis? They acknowledge that they are just looking at the number of prescriptions and that the research doesn't show that the drugs themselves were reducing people's risk. It could equally be the amount of sex that is reducing the risk.
- vanderZwan 3y agoI was thinking along similar lines: sildenafil (the active compound in viagra) was originally researched as a hypertension medication. The link between hypertension and dementia is well-established, and hypertension is also extremely common and relatively underdiagnosed. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sildenafil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sildenafil
- jgalt212 3y agoThe study is a bit more sophisticated than that.