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Twelve healthy people with version 1 of a gene and twelve healthy people with version 2 of a gene at a standard diet supplemented with high-cholesterol food. High cholesterol is associated with increased risk of heart disease. After three weeks of this diet, people with version 1 of the gene had increased cholesterol, whereas people with version 2 of the gene did not have increased cholesterol.
Version 2 of the gene might help remove cholesterol from the body. Eating high-cholesterol foods does not always lead to increased cholesterol in the body.
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Unsupported. We don’t know the proportion of the general population with version 2 of the gene. The stimulus never told us that the participants in the study were representative of the general population.
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Unsupported. We know high cholesterol increases risk of heart disease, but most people with heart disease might not have high cholesterol. They might have heart disease for other reasons.
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Unsupported. We know the people with version 2 of the gene did not exhibit increased cholesterol. We don’t know whether this has anything to do with storing cholesterol before excreting it.
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Unsupported. We don’t know the respective risks of heart disease among the two groups. In any case, people with version 1 of the gene ended up with increased cholesterol, so there’s evidence version 1 may be at higher risk of heart disease than version 2.
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Strongly supported. The people with version 2 of the gene didn’t end up with increased cholesterol, whereas people with version 1 did. This is evidence something about version 2 may be reducing cholesterol or counteracting the increased cholesterol we would expect to observe.
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