Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of less aging in adults

Re:Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of... by wahern on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:30PM (#22056917)

The actual paper seems inconsistent and contradictory. For example, from Section 4:

> Fourth, adjusting for differences in demographic, lifestyle, and dietary covariates has little influence on the relationship between milk fat intake and biological aging. Fifth, there is no relationship between milk fat intake and telomere length among adults who consumed low levels of total saturated fat (tertile 1), but it is strong among adults who consumed moderate or high levels of total saturated fat.

WTF? Am I misunderstanding something?

Source: https://new.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2019/1574021/

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Re:Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of... by iron0013 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:39PM (#22057024)

I can’t speak for this specific study, but in general that sounds like a statistical interaction, which is very common in statistical modeling.

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