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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oldvatr" data-source="post: 1457650" data-attributes="member: 196898">This study was conducted on women only, who were young and had no previous CVE.  There seems to be no other screening of pre existing conditions, such as diabetes.The study makes the observation that the reason why women only were studied included the gem that 'women are more likely to use a low carb diet'.  The study lasted 15.7 years, and i find that assuming that the diet applies over the full period by all participants to be a weak argument.There seems to be  no note taken of fat intake, or whether the fats were sat , unsat, or transfatsIn the years of the study, it was most likely that the type of diets being followed would have been commercial meal replacemenrt type using whey or soya proteins as bulker.  The adverse effects of both of these is now known to be harmful in prolonged use.  This may also be at play in skewing the results.It is acknowledged in the report that a similar cohort study in USA did not show any such correlaton as being declared in this report,  I assume they mean the Harvard Nurses Study, but they do not identify it.All in all I have low confidence in this study which is an observational type study that makes too many assumptions.  The monitored population is NOT representative of the general populace, and does not seem to have any control of the test environment.  It also uses the statistical trick of ranking, i.e. applying fiddle factors to boost or suppress portions of the data.  Although these fiddle factors are declared  in the report, without the raw data being available then these are meaningless, but look impressive to non staticians.</blockquote>

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