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The China Study II: Gender, mortality, and the mysterious factor X

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WarpPLS  and HealthCorrelator for Excel were used to do the analyses below. For other China Study analyses, many using WarpPLS as well as HealthCorrelator for Excel, click here . For the dataset used, visit the HealthCorrelator for Excel site  and check under the sample datasets area. As always, I thank Dr. T. Colin Campbell and his collaborators for making the data publicly available for independent analyses . In my previous post  I mentioned some odd results that led me to additional analyses. Below is a screen snapshot summarizing one such analysis, of the ordered associations between mortality in the 35-69 and 70-79 age ranges and all of the other variables in the dataset. As I said before, this is a subset of the China Study II dataset, which does not include all of the variables for which data was collected. The associations shown below were generated by HealthCorrelator for Excel. The top associations are positive and with mortality in the other range (the “M...

The China Study II: Animal protein, wheat, and mortality … there is something odd here!

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WarpPLS  and HealthCorrelator for Excel  were used in the analyses below. For other China Study analyses, many using WarpPLS and HealthCorrelator for Excel, click here . For the dataset used, visit the HealthCorrelator for Excel site  and check under the sample datasets area. I thank Dr. T. Colin Campbell and his collaborators at the University of Oxford for making the data publicly available for independent analyses . The graph below shows the results of a multivariate linear WarpPLS analysis including the following variables: Wheat (wheat flour consumption in g/d), Aprot (animal protein consumption in g/d), Mor35_69 (number of deaths per 1,000 people in the 35-69 age range), and Mor70_79 (number of deaths per 1,000 people in the 70-79 age range). Just a technical comment here, regarding the possibility of ecological fallacy . I am not going to get into this in any depth now, but let me say that the patterns in the data suggest that, with the possible exception...