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Report says bias taints industry-paid studies
By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 01/08/2007 07:49:26 PM MST
Does milk lower blood pressure? Does juice prevent heart disease? Beverage studies were four to eight times as likely to reach sweet conclusions about health effects when industry was footing the bill, a new report contends.
Its authors claim to have done the first systematic analysis of such studies published from 1999 through 2003 in hundreds of journals around the world.
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NPR Morning Edition, January 9, 2007.
A new study, co-authored by Harvard researchers and analysts from the Center for Science in thePublic Interest, suggests there's a systematic bias in nutrition studies funded by food companies.
