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"When Kim Kardashian posted on Instagram about having had a full-body MRI, she
enthused that the test can be “life saving”, detecting diseases in the earliest
stages before symptoms arise.
What Kardashian neglected to say was there’s no evidence this expensive scan
can bring benefits for healthy people. She also didn’t mention it can carry
harms including unnecessary diagnoses and inappropriate treatments.
With this post in mind, we wanted to explore what influencers are telling us
about medical tests.
In a new study published today in
JAMA Network Open, we analysed nearly 1,000
Instagram and TikTok posts about five popular medical tests which can all do
more harm than good to healthy people, including the full-body MRI scan.
We found the overwhelming majority of these posts were utterly misleading."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
