Researchers from New York University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine report that depressed people are 80 percent more likely to suffer heart attacks.
BUT:
- The reported association is weak (i.e, less than 100 percent) and, therefore, unreliable.
- The researchers failed to look into whether treating the depression removed the additional risk. One of the key supporting facts in the association between smoking and lung cancer is that people who quit smoking have less lung cancer than smokers.
- The researchers have no biological explanation for the purported association.
Three strikes and it's junk science!
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