Re:Rage Disorder Linked with Toxoplasmosis (2016)
by AnimalMuppet on Monday October 02, 2017 @05:51PM
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Maybe not. That 9% number for the control group stands out. That number and the 20% number for the population as a whole seem to me to be incompatible - or, perhaps, measured in different ways.
If the 9% healthy and 22% with IED are both accurate (and the 20% number is the one that's off), then there may in fact be something to see here.
Re:Rage Disorder Linked with Toxoplasmosis (2016)
by averagewall on Monday October 02, 2017 @08:36PM
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Perhaps healthy means younger than the general population and younger means less chance of having been infected yet. Those 20 percent of the population infected might be skewed towards old people.
The research team found that 22 percent of the people with IED tested positive for toxoplasmosis exposure, compared with only 9 percent of the healthy control group. About 16 percent of the group with other psychiatric disorders tested positive for toxoplasmosis, too.
So the people with IED had about the same rate of infection as the general population. This looks to me like one of those "nothing to see here" situations based on the numbers.