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RE: Tooth Loss May Increase Your Risk of Dementia by Up to 80%

in #medicine8 years ago

Exactly! there are two ways in which a correlation can occur between two variables: either one causes the other or a third one (unknown) is causative of the other two. It could just be that general degeneration causes both of these effects, and that some people simply age faster than others.