Healthcare Triage: Does Industry Money Skew Nutrition Study Results? It’s Hard to Say.

Aaron Carroll

November 13, 2016

Every time I write about a nutrition study, someone screams “BIAS!” at me. At least, they do when they don’t like the results. It is assumed, and not totally without merit, that when industry sponsors studies, they get the results they prefer.

But do they? To the research! This is Healthcare Triage News.

For those of you who want to read more:

Association of Industry Sponsorship With Outcomes of Nutrition Studies

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

Healthcare Triage: Does Industry Money Skew Nutrition Study Results? It’s Hard to Say.

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