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Striving to even #lift, #run & #science │ Skeptical blogger (in Finnish) │ #Postdoc in systems epidemiology of cardiometabolic disease at @mak_sysepi group.
Sep 6, 2018 16 tweets 6 min read
Thread alert! Atherosclerosis (official journal of @society_eas) publishes a #review on #TraditionalChineseMedicine (#TCM). It's simultaneously a bit frightening and hilarious (1/16)

atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-… First of all, TCM is BS. It may have been useful thousands of years ago when nothing was known about science but nowadays we know better. Besides, "modern TCM" was pretty much invented by Chairman Mao in the 50's: slate.com/articles/healt… (2/16)
Aug 28, 2018 10 tweets 4 min read
(Thread alert!) This review provides some extremely clear figures that explain not just why #LDL matters for #heartdisease but also HOW it matters | onlinejacc.org/content/72/10/… (1/10) First of all, it's never about what your LDL happens to be right now. It's about what you've been exposed to your whole life. Sometimes you see denialists cite cross-sectional studies (with no follow-up time) as evidence that LDL doesn't matter. This is why that's wrong. (2/10)