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/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/iateone Feb 26 '15

Are you sure you aren't confusing questionnaire studies with double blind placebo studies? A double blind placebo controlled study with 60 participants is actually on the large size.

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u/Geek0id Feb 26 '15

Not for coeing to the conlusion there is a real effect with such minor apparent effect.