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3 stories tagged "bone-density"
Nutrition & Food
The Coffee-and-Bones Study Behind the Scary Headline Found No Significant Coffee Effect
The tea benefit was 0.003 grams per square centimeter, a number the authors themselves called too small to matter. The scary coffee result never cleared statistical significance.
Nutrition & FoodThe Coffee-Weakens-Bones Study Never Analyzed a Single Fracture
Nearly 10,000 older women, ten years of hip scans, and the coffee alarm that made headlines came from a spline curve that never cleared statistical significance.
InvestigationsThe WHO Invented Osteopenia for Statisticians. Merck Turned It Into 34 Million Patients.
The man who chaired the 1992 WHO meeting says they never imagined osteopenia would be treated as a disease. Three years later Merck launched Fosamax and started putting bone scanners in doctors' offices.