"Because patients in our observational cohorts were recruited at quaternary referral centers and show a high prevalence of CVD and traditional risk factors, the translatability of our findings to the general population needs to be determined."
Funny how this was left out of the article.
They had pre-existing risk factors. This was a group at medical clinics for other shit.
Unfortunately, I don't see raw data in the original paper to show the numbers here. But it's usually shit like "there were 11 more cases out of 1000 in the sugar alcohol group.
Seriously, don't even bother sharing this type of fucking popsci here. IT IS ALWAYS TRASH.