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The results showed that the mean VO2max value and the mean endurance performance time for the treadmill running test increased significantly 5 h after the ingestion of a single dose of garlic as compared to the placebo test...
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I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
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But first, I'm off to run. Which is more likely to improve performance...
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Garlic gives me gas anyway.
I've got a fever...
Also, on re-reviewing the results, this study had NOWHERE near the power to achieve the P values they got. They state that they used T testing, which is reasonable, but with so few subjects and confidence intervals that overlap between groups, I am suspicious that the P values reported are incorrect. Since they provide the actual data, I am tempted to repeat the analysis.
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
Were the data normally distributed?
The confidence intervals overlap. The outcome cannot be significant.
What is the rationale for pairing? Just because they are the same subjects with and without the intervention does not necessarily justify this unless they can demonstrate that all other factors are equal. And they cannot be since there may have been a learning effect. And I stand by my concern that they did not look for confounders.