The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
so it was very close as the authors note in this trial the chance that these results occurred by anything other than a real finding suggesting that polyan cetr fats are harmful in cardiovascular disease is less than one in a thousand but a reasonable criticism of this trial is the P value was between 05 and .1 again very unlikely this is anything but a finding that corn oil and olive oil are worse than the control group for cardiovascular disease
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Rose Corno oil trial 1965 2-year follow-up 80 patients with hemic heart disease 80 grams of olive oil versus 80 grams of corn oil per day at two years the proportion of patients remaining free of major cardiac events is greater in the control group 75% then for the two oil groups olive oil is 57% corn oil is 52%