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I agree. There will be plenty of victim-blaming going on here if people read too much into the epidemiology. Thinking about the implications of your comment fo
by carbocation 16y ago
I agree. There will be plenty of victim-blaming going on here if people read too much into the epidemiology.
Thinking about the implications of your comment for my suggestion of a clinical trial, I realized the following: powering a clinical trial to detect any change in the incidence of such a rare disorder is going to require tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of participants. This sounds absurd but may actually be possible, given how much interest there is in vitamin D lately (faddist, IMHO, but whatever). Possible because (1) social interest; (2) vitamin D is cheap; (3) vitamin D is likely relatively safe at typical doses.
- hugh3 16y agoAren't you overlooking the really big problem that such a study would have to last all the way from pre-birth to adulthood in order to pick up this effect?
- carbocation 16y agoI actually think that this is happening in some Scandinavian country (literally from birth). Apologies that I can't find the link, and I encourage you not to believe me until I can.