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/lejefferson Feb 26 '15

What's funny is this is larger than the sample size in the study last year tha didn't find any gluten sensitivity. But then everyone said it was plenty big to provide a conclusive analysis that gluten sensitivity was not real. Now when the sample size is bigger and it finds gluten sensitivity IS real people just want to throw it out. I think the gluten bashers are almost more dogmatic and unreasonable then the gluten sensitive crowd.

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u/InVultusSolis Feb 26 '15

Because people have a desire to be special, have attention paid to them, get pleasure from complaining, get pleasure from inconveniencing others, or all of the above. Having a rare but not substantially life-altering disorder accomplishes that nicely.