Getting studies

(Bob M) #1

I know I saw a post about how to get studies that are behind firewalls, but I can’t find it via searching.

What sources can be used for this?

#2

Literal firewalls like closed off from the public on purpose, or a websites paywall?

(Bob M) #3

Sorry, I mean paywall. (Was thinking about the firewall we have at home…got confused.)

(Bob M) #4

Found it! Sci-hub dot tw.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #5

The Scihub link changes from time to time, so if it stops working, search for it again in your search engine.

(bulkbiker) #6

Also google scholar can be quite useful for some (although not as many as the other one).

(Bunny) #7

Pubmed also has an app

(Bob M) #8

Thanks, all. I was looking for a study on Lp(a). May have to open a thread about Lp(a). I hate when they call things “causal” in this area. (If it’s causal, why don’t 100% of people with “high” Lp(a) get heart disease? If even one person with high Lp(a) does not get heart disease, how can you be sure it’s not something else the person has - and not LP(a)?)

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #9

I have a copy of a paper written in the 1960’s on people with familial hypercholesterolaemia (got the reference from one of David Diamond’s lectures). Interestingly, fully half of such people never develop cardiovascular disease, live to perfectly normal ages, and die of perfectly normal causes. The half who do develop cardiovascular disease all just happen to have polymorphisms of clotting factor VIII and fibrinogen that make their blood likelier to clot. The folks who wrote the paper concluded that cholesterol cannot, therefore, be the cause of the cardiovascular disease that that half of their study population developed.

(Bob M) #10

And I think if they don’t die early of heart disease, they have live longer lives, with less cancer, sicknesses, etc.

I think David Diamond, Dr. Kendrick, et al. believe it’s the clotting factors that are the most important.