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A comment on The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Covid-19. Parent comment

Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by im3w1l on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:50PM (#24367365)
> Notably, though, diabetes and high blood pressure were substantially more frequent in the control group

How did this happen? Just bad luck with randomization?

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Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by zamfi on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:53PM (#24367402)
That's the implication from the paper.
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Re:The First Randomized Controlled Trial on Vitamin D and Co... by stjohnswarts on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:53AM (#24372399)
ack those could definitely affect this, isn't that why they normally try to select otherwise healthy patients as a baseline? Bring in the unhealthy people for the big studies and they'll most likely be spread much more evenly
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