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#383 Hotcakes: Loop Diuretics for CHF, Time Restricted Eating, Breaks from Sitting, Early FMT for C. diff

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Is This Really a Positive Study?

This is a great like sort of hypothesis generating study in my opinion, but not necessarily one that we can all just automatically tell everyone to start taking five minute breaks out of every 30 although I don't think that would hurt people probably closer to their activity. This was a positive trial, meaning a association was shown between some one of their exposures and the outcome. But when I go to look up the protocol, I actually can't find, you know, the study protocol registered anywhere. So, something to look for in the appraisal of positive studies and that was missing in this case.

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