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.
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA.
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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