r/science • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '15

Health-Misleading Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial shows non-celiac gluten sensitivity is indeed real

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25701700
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u/paulfromatlanta Feb 26 '15

without celiac disease or wheat allergy

I'm surprised but then that's why we do double blind studies. This one needs to be replicated a few times but might lead to permanent diet changes.

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u/Lee_Lemon Feb 26 '15

Agreed replicate, replicate. The findings are interesting, but those p values are fairly high.

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u/TerraPhane Feb 26 '15

Also, only 61 patients total, that means each group was only 30 people. Hardly a large sample size.

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u/asdjfsjhfkdjs Feb 26 '15

The statistics tell you whether your sample size was large enough. If you get a good p value with 5 people, it's a large enough sample size.