{"id":336,"date":"2006-06-21T12:26:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T12:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/21\/correlation-causation-and-slee\/"},"modified":"2006-06-21T12:26:27","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T12:26:27","slug":"correlation-causation-and-slee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/21\/correlation-causation-and-slee\/","title":{"rendered":"Correlation, Causation, and Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Examining Room of Dr. Charles, one of the newer ScienceBlogs, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/drcharles\/2006\/06\/diabetes_risk_bmi_and_hours_sl.php\">post reminding me that I want nothing to do with medical research<\/a>. I mean, how do you sort out what&#8217;s a cause, and what&#8217;s an effect in data like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Another recent study, published in Diabetes Care this past March, looked at the relationship between hours slept and the risk of developing diabetes. Researchers followed 1,100 middle age men starting in 1987 up through 2004. The men who slept 6 hours or less per night had double the risk of developing diabetes as compared to those who slept 7-8 hours per night. The men who slept more than 8 hours per night had triple the risk.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d probably lean toward &#8220;effect&#8221; rather than cause, as I could easily imagine that the effects of diabetes would make it difficult for some people to sleep, and would make some other people sleep more. That seems more plausible than a couple of hours of sleep a night being enough of a stress to cause diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>But how you would sort that out, I have no idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/challenge.php?id=146\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" alt=\"i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Examining Room of Dr. Charles, one of the newer ScienceBlogs, there&#8217;s a post reminding me that I want nothing to do with medical research. I mean, how do you sort out what&#8217;s a cause, and what&#8217;s an effect in data like this: Another recent study, published in Diabetes Care this past March,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/21\/correlation-causation-and-slee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Correlation, Causation, and Sleep<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-medicine","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}