*Geek Box: Understanding Relative Risk
*Geek Box: Understanding Relative Risk Relative risk is often dismissed as the sensationalist percentages of risk seen in headlines. And to a degree, this is...
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*Geek Box: Food Frequency Questionnaires, Validation and Reliability
*Geek Box: Food Frequency Questionnaires, Validation and Reliability Dietary collection methods have been subject to significant recent criticism. While far from perfect, however, understanding their...
*Geek Box: “Healthy User Bias” and Selection Bias
*Geek Box: "Healthy User Bias" and Selection Bias "Healthy User Bias" is a bias that can commonly occur in observational reserach, where the characteristics of...
*Geek Box: Kaplan-Meier “Survival Analysis” and Cox Proportional Hazard Ratios
*Geek Box: Kaplan-Meier “Survival Analysis” and Cox Proportional Hazard Ratios In cohort studies, you will commonly see what is known as a "survival analysis", which...
*Geek Box: Nutritional Abnormalities in ASD
*Geek Box: Nutritional Abnormalities in ASD The caveat before we outline some of the nutritional characteristics of ASD is that, as stated above, most of...
*Geek Box: The PCOS Diagnostic Evolution
*Geek Box: The PCOS Diagnostic Evolution What is colloquially known as the “Rotterdam criteria” reflects the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology and the...
*Geek Box: Soy Isoflavones & Prostate Cancer
*Geek Box: Soy Isoflavones & Prostate Cancer Soy foods are rich in specific types of (poly)phenol compounds known as isoflavones, particularly genistein and daidzein. An...
*Geek Box: Pragmatic RCTs
*Geek Box: Pragmatic RCTs When we talk about “randomised controlled trials”, it is often as if this term refers to a single type of design....
*Geek Box: Citrus (Poly)phenols and Glucose Metabolism
*Geek Box: Citrus (Poly)phenols and Glucose Metabolism We love (poly)phenols. And we have, in previous Geek Box’s, discussed their effects on neurological processes and on...
*Geek Box: Potential Mechanisms of Sodium Influencing Gastric Cancer
*Geek Box: Potential Mechanisms of Sodium Influencing Gastric Cancer A relevant question: how might sodium influence stomach cancer risk? When it comes to CVD, we...
*Geek Box: Cardiovascular Effects of Flavonoids
*Geek Box: Cardiovascular Effects of Flavonoids In previous Deepdives where we have focused on flavonoids and the brain, we have discussed three main mechanisms: stimulation...
*Geek Box: Measures of Glucose Tolerance and Insulin Sensitivity
*Geek Box: Measures of Glucose Tolerance and Insulin Sensitivity So, let’s spell some terms out here so you’re on clear terms of what we’re talking...