Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Smoking linked to ALS in women but not men

This came up in my news alert. It sounds pretty thin, but I'm passing it along anyway.

Am. J. Epidemiol. -- Abstracts: Weisskopf et al. 160 (1): 26

They have 11 years of data to work with, and 621 people in the set. I don't know enough statistics to know if that's good enough, but I know that the fact that ALS is so rare makes it harder to study.

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