Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data
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Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data
#2I wonder how much of the data generated isn't true of non-Chinese people. NPR goes into detail on why diverse clinical trials are necessary: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/16/4596667...
> The blood thinner clopidogrel, or Plavix, doesn't work in the 75 percent of Pacific Islanders whose bodies don't produce the enzyme required to activate the drug. For them, taking the medication is like taking a placebo.
> People with epilepsy who are of Asian descent are supposed to get genetic testing before being prescribed the seizure medication carbamazepine, because the drug can damage the skin and internal organs of patients with a certain gene variant.
> And, says Oh, "African-Americans and Puerto Ricans don't respond as well to some of the most common asthma controller medications, and that's really a tragedy since these two groups are the most affected by asthma in the United States."
Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data
#3"The cohort’s leaders recruit babies born at the Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center. Only families planning to live in the southern Chinese city for a long time have been recruited"
Limited ethnic and geographical selection of participants means this 'slew' of data will likely be less valuable than this article lets on. Helpful to that immediate area? yes.
Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data
#4"The cohort’s leaders recruit babies born at the Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center. Only families planning to live in the southern Chinese city for a long time have been recruited" Limited ethnic and geographical selection of participants means this 'slew' of data will likely be less valuable than this article lets on. Helpful to that immediate area? yes.
If it’s applicable to 20% - 30% of people for whom we previously didn’t have medical studies on, this could prove a boon to medicine. In addition for the vast majority of things this is applicable to 100% of people.
Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data
#5"The cohort’s leaders recruit babies born at the Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center. Only families planning to live in the southern Chinese city for a long time have been recruited" Limited ethnic and geographical selection of participants means this 'slew' of data will likely be less valuable than this article lets on. Helpful to that immediate area? yes.
I have to say, the impressive scale of this data collection probably means it will still have some uses. And for Chinese health & medicine, it's simply a massive deal, if everything was done correctly.
Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data
#6I wonder how much of the data generated isn't true of non-Chinese people. NPR goes into detail on why diverse clinical trials are necessary: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/16/4596667... > The blood thinner clopidogrel, or Plavix, doesn't work in the 75 percent of Pacific Islanders whose bodies don't produce the enzyme required to activate the drug. For them, taking the medication is like taking a p…
Race does not exist... therefore there won't be a genetic difference in average outcomes between different people groups. It is useful to think of variation from person-to-person but it is impossible to make comparisons between ethnic groups/races because no substantive differences exist among the various human populations. Probably the study results you reference are a result of different environments...
Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data
#7I wonder how much of the data generated isn't true of non-Chinese people. NPR goes into detail on why diverse clinical trials are necessary: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/16/4596667... > The blood thinner clopidogrel, or Plavix, doesn't work in the 75 percent of Pacific Islanders whose bodies don't produce the enzyme required to activate the drug. For them, taking the medication is like taking a p…
Race does not exist... therefore there won't be a genetic difference in average outcomes between different people groups. It is useful to think of variation from person-to-person but it is impossible to make comparisons between ethnic groups/races because no substantive differences exist among the various human populations. Probably the study results you reference are a result of different environments...
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Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data
#8I wonder how much of the data generated isn't true of non-Chinese people. NPR goes into detail on why diverse clinical trials are necessary: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/12/16/4596667... > The blood thinner clopidogrel, or Plavix, doesn't work in the 75 percent of Pacific Islanders whose bodies don't produce the enzyme required to activate the drug. For them, taking the medication is like taking a p…
Race does not exist... therefore there won't be a genetic difference in average outcomes between different people groups. It is useful to think of variation from person-to-person but it is impossible to make comparisons between ethnic groups/races because no substantive differences exist among the various human populations. Probably the study results you reference are a result of different environments...
I don’t get what you are trying to claim here. There are well known differences between races (e.g. lactose tolerance) that are minor but medically relevant.
Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Race does not exist... therefore there won't be a genetic difference in average outcomes between different people groups. It is useful to think of variation from person-to-person but it is impossible to make comparisons between ethnic groups/races because no substantive differences exist among the various human populations. Probably the study results you reference are a result of different environments...
I don’t get what you are trying to claim here. There are well known differences between races (e.g. lactose tolerance) that are minor but medically relevant.
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Re: Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Race does not exist... therefore there won't be a genetic difference in average outcomes between different people groups. It is useful to think of variation from person-to-person but it is impossible to make comparisons between ethnic groups/races because no substantive differences exist among the various human populations. Probably the study results you reference are a result of different environments...
I don’t get what you are trying to claim here. There are well known differences between races (e.g. lactose tolerance) that are minor but medically relevant.
I think OP is trying to say something like, "The variance between groups is less than the variance among them"