Chocolate Good, Viagra Bad

[Storker]

Last year, we learned that eating chocolate is good for the lining of your blood vessels, and a collective "hallelujah!" could be heard from the diving community. This year's news are bad. Apparently, Sidenafil increases the risk of DCS.

So, the choice is basically either going diving or doing the dirty. Sorry, guys.

 

[Phil_C]

Who needs Sidenafil to have fun

P

 

[Kharon]

I'm way too old to care about that. All it ever did was get me in trouble and cause me aggravation and greif anyway. Diving is way more fun and you can do it solo.

 

[redacted]

Should this be in the solo forum?

 

[iamrushman]

thanks for the HARD UPdate......

 

[Hatul]

Last year, we learned that eating chocolate is good for the lining of your blood vessels, and a collective "hallelujah!" could be heard from the diving community. This year's news are bad. Apparently, Sidenafil increases the risk of DCS.

So, the choice is basically either going diving or doing the dirty. Sorry, guys.

That's a very extreme dive the rats were exposed to. I never dive to 90 meters let alone to 45 mins at that depth. And the dose of Viagra was huge: 10 mg/kg translates to 700 mg to human weight, while the common dose is 50 mg. I'm not sure if the conclusions have any implication for the recreational human diver.

 

[mmmbelows]

That's a very extreme dive the rats were exposed to. I never dive to 90 meters let alone to 45 mins at that depth. And the dose of Viagra was huge: 10 mg/kg translates to 700 mg to human weight, while the common dose is 50 mg. I'm not sure if the conclusions have any implication for the recreational human diver.

Tech diving rats with super woodies... now that's something.

 

[Phil_C]

I'm way too old to care about that. All it ever did was get me in trouble and cause me aggravation and greif anyway. Diving is way more fun and you can do it solo.

Let's not go there ! - diving is not all you can do solo - if you haven't got a friend - P

 

[Storker]

But would you take Viagra for that?

 

[Storker]

That's a very extreme dive the rats were exposed to. I never dive to 90 meters let alone to 45 mins at that depth.

To be serious for a second, it's not very surprising that the dives the rats were exposed to were extreme. With normal conditions, the differences in a population so small that it can be handled in an experimental setup would probably be too small to be unambiguously significant. Even if the conditions are extreme, they indicate a difference that may well be relevant when the population is large enough.

tl;dr: When the number of datapoints is relatively small, the differences have to be bigger to get a significant result. So, conditions are exaggerated.That's SOP in research.