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A comment on Association Between Sauna Bathing and All-Cause Mortality Events.

Re:Association Between Sauna Bathing and All-Cause Mortality... by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @01:01PM (#9108285)
As always, there's trouble with selection bias. Do men who sauna bathe take a more general interest in their health? Do they also eat better, exercise more, have a lower blood pressure etc?
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Re:Association Between Sauna Bathing and All-Cause Mortality... by hammerandtongs on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @01:19PM (#9108434)
"""After adjustment for CVD risk factors"""
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Re:Association Between Sauna Bathing and All-Cause Mortality... by gwern on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @02:58PM (#9109138)
It's a good thing all possible CVD risk factors were measured without measurement error, included in the analysis, and had exactly correct coefficients despite sampling error.
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Re:Association Between Sauna Bathing and All-Cause Mortality... by hammerandtongs on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @03:15PM (#9109248)
It's a good thing we never make any decisions without perfect information.
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Re:Association Between Sauna Bathing and All-Cause Mortality... by gwern on Thursday February 26, 2015 @10:13AM (#9112876)
It's a good thing observational studies like these are not notorious for never replicating and for motivating enormously costly (financially, medically, and personally) fiascos such as the wars on salt and cholesterol.
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Re:Association Between Sauna Bathing and All-Cause Mortality... by kgwgk on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @01:33PM (#9108538)
Eating well and exercising are hard to quantify and control for.
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