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Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness

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204 points bookofjoe | 2 comments | 06 Dec 25 21:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.439s | source
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brikym ◴[06 Dec 25 22:24 UTC] No.46177117[source]▶
Liking coffee linked to ...
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jagged-chisel ◴[06 Dec 25 22:32 UTC] No.46177176[source]▶
Is this a quote? Or your own take?
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1. brikym ◴[07 Dec 25 00:36 UTC] No.46178105[source]▶
My own take. The point is that the link may be the other way around. The population of people who tend to drink coffee might age slower. Perhaps due to some third variable like wealth or race. Correlation is not causation.
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2. jama211 ◴[07 Dec 25 18:42 UTC] No.46183949[source]▶
These studies are often questionable at best, but usually they make some attempt to control for those things, did you check if they did in the study?