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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:534-535
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Special Theme: Nutrition

Commentary: This study failed?

Charles Poole1, Ulrike Peters2, Dora Il’yasova3 and Lenore Arab1

1 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
2 Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA.
3 Department of Epidemiology, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

Charles Poole, Department of Epidemiology (CB 7435), University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 27599–7435, USA. E-mail: cpoole@unc.edu

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What are this study’s implications? No question is asked more often of epidemiologists, or by them. In this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology, the paper by Sesso et al.1 on tea consumption in relation to coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke provides an excellent illustration of several ways of framing this question.


   What does it all mean?
 
This, of course, is the question that cartoon pilgrims climb mountains to ask their gurus. The broadest way of posing it in the present context would be with regard to what people ought to do, now that we have the results of Sesso et al.,1 about their own tea intake and that of others. These are policy decisions that require policy analyses to answer. The analyses would be complex. Health is but one of many of the considerations, CHD and stroke are just two of many health considerations, epidemiology is just one of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   What would it all mean if this were the only study?
 

   What does this study contribute to the literature?
 

   Conclusion
 

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