More clinical support and advocates are needed for people diagnosed with BPD navigating health care systems! And anti-stigmatization tools are needed to improve patient care
In the largest, most thorough #borderlinepersonalitydisorder study to date (12,000 diagnosed / 2 million total), we found that BPD was associated with nearly all analyzed psych disorders, physical illnesses, trauma, and adverse behaviors, e.g. self-harm
https://t.co/ft0L8indSM
We also looked at sex differences and the estimates for their full siblings. Results were consistent between males & females. Broadly, full siblings had increased associations w/ everything but physical illnesses
My latest publication is out! In this study we examined ~4 million individuals across Sweden and Denmark and found that patients with #type1diabetes have double the risk of being diagnosed with an eating disorder
https://t.co/XZKVOSQv2w
If you or a loved one is struggling with an eating disorder visit the NEDA website for more information on symptoms and recovery: https://t.co/S1QQR4O64F
but we did not find evidence of familial coaggregation, i.e. there wasn't an increased risk of family members of T1D patients being diagnosed with an eating disorder. Diabetes clinicians should monitor patients for eating disorder symptoms
Research law #5: anytime you think to yourself that you’ve made great progress on a study, you will immediately find a coding error that means you have to restart your analyses from scratch 😭
Statistical terms: what they really mean
Multicolinearity— they all look the same
Heteroscedasticity— the variation varies
Attenuation— being too modest
Overfitting— too good to be true
Confounding— nothing is what it seems
P-value— it’s complicated