• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    2 months ago

    If you cut your legs, it will prevent leg diseases too, how does the study consider this bias?

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        2 months ago

        If you cut something out, then you can’t have diseases on this part anymore, but it doesn’t mean it’s a health benefit overall. I used the leg example to make the idea more obvious.