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Did you read the paper? They studied women with and without diagnosed eating disorders as part of the research. From a cursory read, it looks pretty damning to
by pja 12y ago
Did you read the paper? They studied women with and without diagnosed eating disorders as part of the research.
From a cursory read, it looks pretty damning to me - I'm not qualified to do a deep dive in the research methodology, but the conclusions look sound.
- refurb 12y agoThe did the tests in mice. Where do you see the studies with humans?
- pygy_ 12y agoFrom the abstract: Finally, we show that plasma levels of anti-ClpB IgG crossreactive with α-MSH are increased in patients with AN, bulimia and [binge eating disorder], and that the [eating disorders] Inventory-2 scores in [eating disorders] patients correlate with anti-ClpB IgG and IgM, which is similar to our previous findings for α-MSH auto-Abs. Search in text for "Anti-ClpB antibodies in ED patients" for the details.
- DanBC 12y agoYes, sorry. The stuff about humans was a bit obs urred but I should have read it more carefully. I'm still trying to work out how many humans were used. It's a frustratingly dense read on mobile. EDIT: 65 control; 27 anorexia; 14 binge eating disorder. It's interesting, but I want to see very many more samples taken from women at different hospitals and the community.
- pygy_ 12y agoThe paper is very dense, overall. It is detailed in the legend of the 4th figure: ... Ctr, n=65, AN, n=27 BN, n=32 and BED, n=14 Crt = controls, AN = anorexia, BN = bulimia, BED = binge eating disorder. http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v4/n10/fig_tab/tp201498f4.html#figure-title http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v4/n10/fig_tab/tp201498f4.h...