No, that’s not the case at all. You’re the one who started with the negativity by saying that the study is useless and a waste of money. I’m asking how you would have obtained the data otherwise without the study, to which you apparently have no answer.
I agree that it does seem obvious that wealth generally helps health outcomes - but thanks to studies like this, now we know the actual results. And guess what, the wealthiest Americans are still behind average Europeans, so your instinct about what was “obvious” turned out to be wrong. Is that not valuable?
End of the day, this is a forum interested in longevity, so this sort of research is pretty relevant and useful, as long as the study is actually well-performed.
@WJ_phd, yes re BMI and poor STD of care outcomes IMHO.
Also in my opinion catagory but from years of self study on food, nutrition and anti-aging; EU’ers consume a fraction of the seed oils, foods may have higher nutrient density, lower polutions in air, water, foods. My view is; EU;ers get less bad stuff, more of the good stuff. Even if they get less health care via a metered out single payer system.
A some what parallel area of statistical study might be; health span vs number of contacts to a health care system. IMHO the more contact the worse your outcome. Yes yes lots of argument that higher disease load causes shorter health span, but one might also argue that counter to health outcome STD of care actually worsens healthspan. IE what Wj-phd said… We here can rattle off dozens of STD of care practices that worsen actual outcome. Just my terse views.