Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.
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May 8, 2026 at 7:30 PM#17
One thing that is still open after TirzTom’s answer:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
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May 9, 2026 at 8:10 AM#18
Dr.CardioMD said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
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Dr.CardioMD said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.
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