Could education be dangerous to your health? Pitfalls of misapplied statistics.
It is important to evaluate cardiovascular risk factors. A correlation between cholesterol levels and the duration of formal education has not been observed previously. In analyzing our data, it was found that these two variables had a significant correlation (p < 0.05). Further evaluation did not substantiate this correlation. After considering various possible reasons we concluded that the seeming correlation was caused by inappropriate statistical evaluation.
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D015984:Causality; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood*; D004522:Educational Status; D015981:Epidemiologic Factors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged
D002784:Cholesterol