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Sunday, December 12, 2004Prentice, the chief number cruncher for the health initiative, did not believe it bore out such sweeping conclusions. First of all, the data were collected on women 50-79 years old -- many of whom would have been around 40 when the pill hit the market. So he and his colleagues reanalyzed the numbers to verify the Wayne State findings. They found that the association between the pill and a lower incidence of disease was really a factor of age. "When you're comparing a 79-year-old women who never used oral contraceptives to a 62-year-old woman who did, the age difference is much more likely to explain things than who used the pill," said Garnet Anderson, a biostatistician at Fred Hutchinson who helped examine the data. posted by Sydney on 12/12/2004 09:14:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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