george davey smith
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24-02-2012 21:26:30
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Hush Puppies in rural Uganda quiz: which leading UK biomedical scientist was wearing their hush puppies on a field site visit to MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit world leading General Population Cohort (GPC)?
A major risk factor for believing nonsense about risk factors is not reading this two pager from george davey smith and Andrew Phillips (not on tw?). Open link in next post
“Systemic inflammation may influence the severity and course of depressive symptoms across the life course”
Check out new findings from Children of the 90s & UK Biobank cohorts by Amelia Edmondson-Stait 👇
Well done, Amelia!
OUT TODAY!!! Editorial on ancestry/ ethnicity/ race and cardiometabolic disease inequalities. Working with stellar colleagues has been brilliantly informative & thought-provoking 🌟 Nish Chaturvedi MRC LHA @ UCL gibran hemani Sarah Watkins Aylwyn Scally george davey smith 🔗 + 🧵👇
Our research shows that brachial measurements substantially overestimate aortic systolic blood pressure in adolescents and might result in an overdiagnosis of hypertension during screening journals.lww.com/jhypertension/…
Chloe Park 💙 MRC LHA @ UCL george davey smith Laura Howe Children of the 90s
John Mandrola, MD george davey smith Worth the time! Recording is now up
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Hey Timandra Harkness here’s the link for the Mendelian Randomisation talk at UCL Health of the Public last night. Shame you couldn’t be there in person and benefit from the free drinks afterwards ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/FlkD…
RCTs & MR agree that HDL cholesterol does not protect against CHD pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32244255/ Now non-linear MR simply recapitulates the non-causal observational association pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38364900/ Can MR be made useful again? Hear tomorrow 4.30pm details at
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This is science.
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4/n I'll be talking in person and on-line about the hole Mendelian randomization is in, and what can be done to dig it out from this, to become useful again
UCL Health of the Public
25th April 4pm UK time, registration required at forms.office.com/pages/response…
Obvious that zero covid psychologists knew little infectious disease epidemiology.Seems they were limited wrt to psychology too. Great paper by
Laura Dodsworth
Dr Gemma Ahearne SFHEA
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Professor Lucy Easthope
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Professor Ellen Townsend #IsAway_Mostly
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… COI: I have a psychology degree
Agree Richard McElreath 🦔 though instrumental variables was co-invented with his economist father youtube.com/watch?v=z0kI35… & though Sewall Wright developed path analysis & use of causal anchors, he never used genetic IVs. 25/4 at 4.30pm more on the crisis in MR forms.office.com/pages/response…