21 points bookofjoe 1 hour ago 11 comments
thisisauserid 1 hour ago | parent
Unintentional napping was associated with possible/probable dementia.
Intentional napping was not.
One could easily reverse cause and effect here.
ahartmetz 51 minutes ago | parent
Easily. I'm 80% sure that they did reverse cause and effect.
causal 50 minutes ago | parent
Yeah I feel like the results could be stated more clearly. At any rate this doesn't seem to associate risk with any chosen behavior.
kirth_gersen 33 minutes ago | parent
It seems to me that perhaps the data better supports that dementia is correlated with unintentional and short naps. This makes it sound like they think it is causal, which I doubt.
tyrabound 25 minutes ago | parent
Yes, ironically they even admit possible reverse causal effect along with many other causal variables. Frankly, this is not exactly stellar research in my view, at least with the rather reckless insinuations not supported.
reedf1 58 minutes ago | parent
I am a frequent intentional napper (< 30 minutes). Am I right in reading that I am at baseline risk?
falsemyrmidon 52 minutes ago | parent
I'd guess this goes back to not getting enough healthy sleep, which is a reason people nap.