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> Conclusion: SSB consumption is significantly associated with low serum testosterone in men 20–39 years old in the United States.
by ronnier 5y ago
> Conclusion: SSB consumption is significantly associated with low serum testosterone in men 20–39 years old in the United States.
- acbart 5y agoDo they give the effect size anywhere?
- genrez 5y agonarush points out elsewhere that this isn't a controlled experiment, so take these numbers with a grain of salt. Also I am not a statistician, so take this with another grain of salt. That being said, if I am interpreting Table 2 correctly, the study is saying that consuming a large amount of surgery beverages causes your risk of having low-testosterone related problems to rise by 2.29 times compared to not drinking many sugary beverages. This is after correcting for age, race, BMI, alcoholism, and physical activity levels. The risk increase before correcting for these things is 2.78 times, so that would seem to indicate that sugary beverages do have a pretty large effect compared to the confounders they choose, though it is still possible sugary beverage consumption is acting as a proxy for something else.
- osdoorp 5y agoSmall correction: the study is saying that consuming a large amount of sugary beverages *is associated" with lower-testosterone concentration — they didn't say anything about causation. It's also possible that lower-testosterone causes you having a "sweet tooth".