You gotta love medical studies. Because they make no sense if you believe them all.
Newswise — High levels of daily stress appear to result in a lower risk of developing breast cancer for the first time, says a study in this week’s BMJ.
Stress? Got it covered, babe. But wait! What about high blood pressure and heart attacks due to stress?
But high stress may put women at risk of other serious illnesses warn the researchers, a team from Denmark.
Denmark? They studied Danes for stress levels? What kind of stress could they have in Denmark?
The findings follow an eighteen year study of over 6,500 women in Copenhagen. At the start of the study researchers asked the women what levels of stress they experienced routinely in their lives, and classified the results into low, medium and high levels. Stress was defined as tension, nervousness, impatience, anxiety, or sleeplessness. (Stress levels were not measured throughout the study.)
Did you catch that last sentence? Let me repeat it:
Stress levels were not measured throughout the study.
They started studying stress levels, then stopped. And they now say that high stress can lower breast cancer. On crappy data.
Medical studies. Ya gotta love ’em.
I think I’ll just ignore the ones like this.
The main stress was being asked idiotic questions by researchers.