Category: eclinicalmedicine
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Lancet Journal Publishes My Letter Challenging Claims on Exercise and Long COVID
Last year, eClinicalMedicine, a journal in the Lancet stable, published an article called “Effects of therapeutic interventions on long COVID: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.” The paper reported that, according to “high-certainty evidence,” exercise training could improve health and “should be prioritized”. These conclusions were preposterous, for multiple reasons. (I wrote about it here…
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Letter to eClinicalMedicine about Exercise Recommendations in Flawed Meta-Analysis of Long COVID Interventions
A journal under the Lancet umbrella, eClinicalMedicine, recently published a study from China called “Effects of therapeutic interventions on long COVID: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.” (I wrote about it here.) The authors themselves determined that most of the research they included was, to be charitable, on the crappy side. Nonetheless, they claimed “high-certainty…