> “It will also be critical to see a comparison of demographics and baseline characteristics across the groups that were classified into the different time-restricted eating windows – for example, was the group with the shortest time-restricted eating window unique compared to people who followed other eating schedules, in terms of weight, stress, traditional cardiometabolic risk factors or other factors associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes? This additional information will help to better understand the potential independent contribution of the short time-restricted eating pattern reported in this interesting and provocative abstract.”
So correlation is likely just a data artifact of poor data analysis and nothing to do with intermittent fasting?
My gut reaction: Intermittent fasters who are not doing it entirely by choice are going to have other stress markers. And those are highly correlated with cardiac function.
No, that's a quote from someone they interviewed who hasn't read the full paper (the full paper is not yet available). They are saying that the details of the study will determine how significant the results are.
> So correlation is likely just a data artifact of poor data analysis and nothing to do with intermittent fasting?
You have no idea whether the data analysis is good or not; the only thing that was released is the abstract.
I was thinking a similar thing while reading the article, where people who are doing intermittent fasting are more likely to be overweight and less healthy than someone who isn't doing intermittent fasting. They saw an increase in people with existing heart disease as well, so perhaps more people have less healthy hearts in general than they realize?
Reminds me of an alternate explanation of the Benadryl/diphenhydramine / dementia link: the people using diphenhydramine as a sleep aid probably have sleep problems, and their sleep problems could be the cause of earlier dementia.
that's a fairly myopic view of the word 'diet.'
lots of different people are on lots of different diets for lots of different reasons, e.g. bodybuilders or those with allergies.
if the comment i replied to posits that people on diets are overweight, and there are people on diets who aren't overweight—then why don't you go ahead and finish that logic for me.
not like any of this back-and-forth is whatsoever relevant to the thread anyway.
and btw, i think the insult you were looking for is spelled 'woosh' or 'whoosh.' onomatopoeia and all that. a 'swoosh' is what basketballs do.
So correlation is likely just a data artifact of poor data analysis and nothing to do with intermittent fasting?