Posted by Ueli on June 09, 1999 at 07:30:12:
In Reply to: Using the National Library of Medicine online to find a CH cure posted by Ron Grosserode on June 07, 1999 at 23:32:54:
Ron,
Thank you for posting the address of the NLM, I'm sure there is a lot of good stuff to be found.
However, the article you are citing is for me just another shoddy piece of 'research', probably done out of the
publish-or-perish attitude. Or maybe it was done to please the anti smoking zealots. The author of this article takes a sample of
108 female CH patients and splits it into five periods. A sample of about a dozen (for the earliest period) gives a statistical
error of about 30%, and quoting the ratios with decimals does not make sense therefore. And what about the other data he
correlates to ? The number of aircraft's flying overhead or the time spent in front of the TV would have probably given as good
a 'correlation'. IMHO the best correlation would be with the slow dissemination of the fact that women also can get CH and
the number of misdiagnosed migraines.
Even if one could attribute some statistical significance to such a study,. how would it help to find a cure ?
Or is the 'cure' in the message: If you didn't have smoked for 40 years, you wouldn't have gotten CH (especially helpful for the
30% of CHeads that started before the age of 20, [CH, not smoking] :).
Ueli