Amid all the scaremongering about having gas stoves torn from houses, Dr F. Perry Wilson drills down on his biggest research pet peeve.
paper searched for new data from 2013 to now to add to the original study, and despite chasing down 27 articles that seemed to address the issue, none provided effect estimates. In other words, the current paper has the exact same data as the paper from 2013.
Well, the authors find, after combining all this data, that the odds of developing asthma among children exposed to gas stoves is 34% higher than the odds of developing asthma among kids not so exposed. That brings us to the misunderstood statistical concept called the PAF. It works like this: For any given disease, there are underlying causes. And it would be useful to know how much individual causes contribute to the total burden of a particular disease. Why? Because then we would know how much we would reduce the disease if we eliminated that particular cause.
These are the only numbers I'm going to use moving forward. Note that the rate of asthma is higher in houses with gas stoves, but that's simply a correlation. I'm not proving that gas stoves cause asthma, just that people with gas stoves are more likely to have asthma. But let's push the math harder, focusing only on those cases of asthma. We've got 13,000 cases, 5500 of which are among people who live with gas stoves.
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