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.
a 20% increase in obesity among kids who had taken an antibiotic in the first two years of life 21% increase in learning disabilities these were all the statistically significant bindings 32% increase in attention deficit disorder a 90% increase in asthma and a 289 increase in Celiac
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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what they found were these incredible correlations there were about 10,000 kids who had taken an antibiotic course and 4,000 who had not and they matched them to the best of their ability statistically a 20% increase in obesity among kids who had taken an antibiotic in the first two years of life 21% increase in learning disabilities these were all the statistically significant bindings 32% increase in attention deficit disorder a 90% increase in asthma and a 289 increase in Celiac