Sep 10, 2023·edited Sep 10, 2023Liked by Robyn Chuter
Another wokehole stable, ACP Annals, same influences, same claptrap pseudoscience posing as medicine infected by poisoned midwit SJW academicians. Also surrendered professional credibility long ago. And don't look for contradictory comments, counternarratives will be purged.
They published this study very similar to the JAMA study you shared, not finding racial disparity despite their best efforts, disturbed by it.
Social, Behavioral, and Metabolic Risk Factors and Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in U.S. Adults
American College of Physicians, Annals of Internal Medicine, August 15, 2023
Jiang He, MD, PhD, Joshua D. Bundy, MPH, PhD, Siyi Geng, MS, Ling Tian, MS, Hua He, PhD, Xingyan Li, MSPH, Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, Amanda H. Anderson, MPH, PhD, Kirsten S. Dorans, ScD, Ramachandran S. Vasan, MD, Katherine T. Mills, MSPH, PhD, and Jing Chen, MD, MSc
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality is persistently higher in the Black population than in other racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
Objective:
To examine the degree to which social, behavioral, and metabolic risk factors are associated with CVD mortality and the extent to which racial differences in CVD mortality persist after these factors are accounted for.After adjustment for these metabolic, behavioral, and social risk factors separately, hazard ratios of CVD mortality for Black compared with White participants were attenuated from 1.54 (95% CI, 1.34 to 1.77) to 1.34 (CI, 1.16 to 1.55), 1.31 (CI, 1.15 to 1.50), and 1.04 (CI, 0.90 to 1.21), respectively.
Limitation:
Causal contributions of social, behavioral, and metabolic risk factors to racial and ethnic disparities in CVD mortality could not be established.
Conclusion:
The Black–White difference in CVD mortality diminished after adjustment for behavioral and metabolic risk factors and completely dissipated with adjustment for social determinants of health in the U.S. population.
Primary Funding Source:
National Institutes of Health.
BUT....here's a twist! The same study, authors published in the American Heart Association Journal earlier this year:
Abstract MP15: Mediation Effects of Social, Behavioral, and Metabolic Risk Factors on Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in US Adults
Jiang He, Joshua D Bundy, Siyi Geng, Ling Tian, Hua He, Katherine T Mills and Jing Chen
It's the same study. But with a different conclusion:
Conclusion: Social determinants of health play an important role in racial disparities in CVD mortality. These findings call for public health interventions beyond lifestyle changes and medical treatment.
Academia in the New Dark Age has a funny science. It's almost like it's just a narrative in search of data. Adaptable for any audience and agenda. They really want the narrative to be true. But that insufferable data. Hey - between the JAMA published research and these two 'different' research studies we have to be getting close to having enough studies to publish a "metadata analysis" that racism doesn't cause heart disease, right?
Orwellian, indeed.
Comment below will have excerpts from George Orwell's "The Prevention of Literature" written in 1946 that applies. It even contemplates machine writing programmed to match state objectives, like, say, AI writing used in many publications today.
I see, too, that there are some Head Girls infesting our federal parliament now. In reference to Australia's looming Covid-inspired Ministry of Truth at ACMA, progressive' Teals like Zali Steggall (some sort of skier, apparently) have come out with the old clunker that 'free speech does not mean the right to spread misinformation and disinformation'.
Well, yes, it does mean that, actually. The government has every right to spread as much of its pseudoscience cow manure as it likes providing its critics get the same right to free speech, leaving responsible adults the freedom to evaluate the contested ideas. One person's 'misinformation' is another person's propaganda - and without free speech, there is no way of separating the wheat from the chaff.
Another Head Girl/Prefect Teal (Monique Ryan, I think it was) also a mask fanatic forever pulling the maskless students into line.
As a psychological type, the Head Girl is a fascinating, and dangerous, subject.
Another wokehole stable, ACP Annals, same influences, same claptrap pseudoscience posing as medicine infected by poisoned midwit SJW academicians. Also surrendered professional credibility long ago. And don't look for contradictory comments, counternarratives will be purged.
They published this study very similar to the JAMA study you shared, not finding racial disparity despite their best efforts, disturbed by it.
Social, Behavioral, and Metabolic Risk Factors and Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in U.S. Adults
American College of Physicians, Annals of Internal Medicine, August 15, 2023
Jiang He, MD, PhD, Joshua D. Bundy, MPH, PhD, Siyi Geng, MS, Ling Tian, MS, Hua He, PhD, Xingyan Li, MSPH, Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, Amanda H. Anderson, MPH, PhD, Kirsten S. Dorans, ScD, Ramachandran S. Vasan, MD, Katherine T. Mills, MSPH, PhD, and Jing Chen, MD, MSc
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-0507
Abstract
Background:
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality is persistently higher in the Black population than in other racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
Objective:
To examine the degree to which social, behavioral, and metabolic risk factors are associated with CVD mortality and the extent to which racial differences in CVD mortality persist after these factors are accounted for.After adjustment for these metabolic, behavioral, and social risk factors separately, hazard ratios of CVD mortality for Black compared with White participants were attenuated from 1.54 (95% CI, 1.34 to 1.77) to 1.34 (CI, 1.16 to 1.55), 1.31 (CI, 1.15 to 1.50), and 1.04 (CI, 0.90 to 1.21), respectively.
Limitation:
Causal contributions of social, behavioral, and metabolic risk factors to racial and ethnic disparities in CVD mortality could not be established.
Conclusion:
The Black–White difference in CVD mortality diminished after adjustment for behavioral and metabolic risk factors and completely dissipated with adjustment for social determinants of health in the U.S. population.
Primary Funding Source:
National Institutes of Health.
BUT....here's a twist! The same study, authors published in the American Heart Association Journal earlier this year:
Abstract MP15: Mediation Effects of Social, Behavioral, and Metabolic Risk Factors on Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in US Adults
Jiang He, Joshua D Bundy, Siyi Geng, Ling Tian, Hua He, Katherine T Mills and Jing Chen
AHA Journals, March 14, 2023
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.147.suppl_1.MP15
It's the same study. But with a different conclusion:
Conclusion: Social determinants of health play an important role in racial disparities in CVD mortality. These findings call for public health interventions beyond lifestyle changes and medical treatment.
Academia in the New Dark Age has a funny science. It's almost like it's just a narrative in search of data. Adaptable for any audience and agenda. They really want the narrative to be true. But that insufferable data. Hey - between the JAMA published research and these two 'different' research studies we have to be getting close to having enough studies to publish a "metadata analysis" that racism doesn't cause heart disease, right?
Orwellian, indeed.
Comment below will have excerpts from George Orwell's "The Prevention of Literature" written in 1946 that applies. It even contemplates machine writing programmed to match state objectives, like, say, AI writing used in many publications today.
I see, too, that there are some Head Girls infesting our federal parliament now. In reference to Australia's looming Covid-inspired Ministry of Truth at ACMA, progressive' Teals like Zali Steggall (some sort of skier, apparently) have come out with the old clunker that 'free speech does not mean the right to spread misinformation and disinformation'.
Well, yes, it does mean that, actually. The government has every right to spread as much of its pseudoscience cow manure as it likes providing its critics get the same right to free speech, leaving responsible adults the freedom to evaluate the contested ideas. One person's 'misinformation' is another person's propaganda - and without free speech, there is no way of separating the wheat from the chaff.
Another Head Girl/Prefect Teal (Monique Ryan, I think it was) also a mask fanatic forever pulling the maskless students into line.
As a psychological type, the Head Girl is a fascinating, and dangerous, subject.