Very good explanation of the issues surrounding the use of “risk factors” in medicine. Learned a lot. Of course this doesn’t prevent the media from overstating or understating disease risks based on their own biases and studies that “support” their views. Thanks for sharing this!

Hush Puppies in rural Uganda quiz: which leading UK biomedical scientist was wearing their hush puppies on a field site visit to ⁦MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit⁩ world leading General Population Cohort (GPC)?

A major risk factor for believing nonsense about risk factors is not reading this two pager from george davey smith and Andrew Phillips (not on tw?). Open link in next post

“Systemic inflammation may influence the severity and course of depressive symptoms across the life course”

Check out new findings from Children of the 90s & UK Biobank cohorts by Amelia Edmondson-Stait 👇

Well done, Amelia!

OUT TODAY!!! Editorial on ancestry/ ethnicity/ race and cardiometabolic disease inequalities. Working with stellar colleagues has been brilliantly informative & thought-provoking 🌟 Nish Chaturvedi MRC LHA @ UCL gibran hemani Sarah Watkins Aylwyn Scally george davey smith 🔗 + 🧵👇

Our research shows that brachial measurements substantially overestimate aortic systolic blood pressure in adolescents and might result in an overdiagnosis of hypertension during screening journals.lww.com/jhypertension/…
Chloe Park 💙 MRC LHA @ UCL george davey smith Laura Howe Children of the 90s

Here ucl.zoom.us/rec/play/Tw9ga…

John Mandrola, MD george davey smith Worth the time! Recording is now up

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Lectureship in Machine Learning for Health, now open for applications!

In the Bristol Medical School, closing date 14th May 2024 – bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/deta…

Job number – ACAD107492
Contact me for an informal chat if interested.

Recording of must watch lecture for anyone who performs or reads studies using Mendelian randomization linked below 👇

Hey Timandra Harkness here’s the link for the Mendelian Randomisation talk at UCL Health of the Public last night. Shame you couldn’t be there in person and benefit from the free drinks afterwards ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/FlkD…

Two 4 year PhD opportunities MRC IEU with the legendary Tom Gaunt, closing date 20th May
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RCTs & MR agree that HDL cholesterol does not protect against CHD pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32244255/ Now non-linear MR simply recapitulates the non-causal observational association pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38364900/ Can MR be made useful again? Hear tomorrow 4.30pm details at
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This is science.
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4/n I'll be talking in person and on-line about the hole Mendelian randomization is in, and what can be done to dig it out from this, to become useful again
UCL Health of the Public
25th April 4pm UK time, registration required at forms.office.com/pages/response…

THE most impactful proponent of Mendelian randomization methods has pumped the breaks, acknowledging his concerns that MR can generate spurious relationships & overstated causal conclusions, especially in nonlinear associations.

TLDR: 🤌obesity still not protective for mortality

Obvious that zero covid psychologists knew little infectious disease epidemiology.Seems they were limited wrt to psychology too. Great paper by
Laura Dodsworth
Dr Gemma Ahearne SFHEA
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Professor Lucy Easthope
@Michael_riordan
Professor Ellen Townsend #IsAway_Mostly
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… COI: I have a psychology degree

Our next bake sale is this Thursday in the Staff Room between 10 and 11:30, raising money to support specialist treatment for a local little boy.

Agree Richard McElreath 🦔 though instrumental variables was co-invented with his economist father youtube.com/watch?v=z0kI35… & though Sewall Wright developed path analysis & use of causal anchors, he never used genetic IVs. 25/4 at 4.30pm more on the crisis in MR forms.office.com/pages/response…