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by LachlanWaffles 42 days ago
"Results: Common vaccines were associated with an increased risk of dementia (OR, 1.38 [95% CI, 1.36-1.40]), compared with no exposure."
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Again, the insistence with cherry-picking results. Shame.

Conclusions: Common vaccines were not associated with a decreased risk of dementia. Unmeasured confounding and detection bias likely accounted for the observed increased risk.

Continuing the same paragraph: “Applying a 10-year lag period […] and comparing versus prostate cancer screening […] but not breast cancer screening […] attenuated the risk increase.“

The “attenuated” in this case means “weakened the case for”.

Or, in other words, we found a correlation without finding any causation.