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Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by pfortuny on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:26AM (#35152042)
Well, looking at extremes is not the best way to analyze general data.
Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by adhesive_wombat on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:09AM (#35152744)
Do you genuinely think a 50-fold difference in dementia incidence sounds remotely plausible?

That would probably be the strongest incidence gradient signal in medical history. Dementia research would be laser-focussed on the Albania-North Macedonia-Bulgaria axis and the Singapore-Malaysia axis as they'd be near-ideal comparative populations.

If the data isn't compatible, the table doesn't mean much at all, since it has merged reporting bias with the actual incidence rates.