It is probably just bad reporting from the mediaIt suugests that anyone would need to see and understand the statistics, far more than it means that it is nonsense.
It is probably just bad reporting from the mediaIt suugests that anyone would need to see and understand the statistics, far more than it means that it is nonsense.
If you’d avoided rowing and rugger your knees might have survived longer…?Rowed at school, (got a national trophy), played Rugby, (2nd XV), but since leaving school when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I've done sweet fa in the way of exercise other than gone for the occasional walk. Knees are starting to go now, but I'll be 74 this year.
Is there a moral to all this? Answers on a postcard please.
It is probably just bad reporting from the media
It's nonsense then, 'other exercises' could have been a walk
If you’d avoided rowing and rugger your knees might have survived longer…?
I remember speculation that athletes might be more susceptible 25 years ago, when my dad developed it (he was himself quite athletic, as it happens). It would account for Lou Gehrig anyway. (Sick MND joke [Dennis Leary?]: "Poor Lou Gehrig, he should really have seen that one coming.")
I’m no epidemiologist, but that figure of 1 in 300 is complete bollocks. More like 2/100,000 per year in the uk, which means about 5000 people living with the disease at any one time.Astounding article on bbc saying that intense exercise can give rise to increased risk of mnd in those who are genetically vulnerable. Apparently 1 in 300 get the disease and athletes higher risk. Astonishing.
Many may know this awful disease and any research that reduces it's risk has to be welcomed . Had a colleague aged 50 who self diagnosed this and flew off to switzerland.
I had to latch onto the first computational molecular biology thread that crossed my path.
Same for me.I liked rugger even less than cross-country. If my school had offered proper football I'd have been in like Flynn, but because it was a poncey grammar school we got rugby union, the most boring sport known to humanity. Indeed, it embodies Schopenhauer's quote that life 'swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.'
I’m no epidemiologist, but that figure of 1 in 300 is complete bollocks. More like 2/100,000 per year in the uk, which means about 5000 people living with the disease at any one time.
Given the vastly overstated risk, and (according to Gustav - thank you) the vastly overstated correlation with exercise it seems the original BBC article is scaremongering click-bait.
yes glad you sad that ,I thought it was a bit oddI’m no epidemiologist, but that figure of 1 in 300 is complete bollocks. More like 2/100,000 per year in the uk, which means about 5000 people living with the disease at any one time.
It was likely a press release from the university. The Guardian had a similar article.
BTW that 1 in 300 figure came from a charity linked in the BBC article. I didn't dig to find the source though. Seems high indeed. I wonder if it's for a much more general condition.
Intense exercise is basically the same as choosing to be an overworked donkey, why do it? Just exercise will do.
The much greater incidence of heart disease (and other obesity related conditions) means that simply living longer from not being a lazy slob increase the ending up with something unusualHowever cancer and heart disease have a lifetime risk of something like 1 in 3 and both are reduced via exercise, so I think even if MND is 1 in 300 it's still pretty rare.
What a piece of shit meta analysis.
The threshold for intense exercise seems a little low. To anyone who does intense exercise. They should subset for competitive rowers, runners, cyclist and squashes.