As I'm sure you're aware, showing an association in a population study is not the same as demonstrating causal relationships exist, communicating increased risk to individuals is difficult even when this is done by trained counsellors, and there are significant confounders (like ancestry/ethnicity) that need to be controlled for that your cited studies don't have data for.
How do you intend to address the challenge of communicating "results" to patients when interpretation at an individual level is difficult-to-impossible, the evidence is extremely flimsy, and there may be no way to address a metabolic finding?
There are some serious ethical (and probably regulatory) issues around providing "wellness data" to people while citing actionable health insights based on lab tests.
At the end of the day your site lists "results" like "you told us you sleep on average 7 hours per night", recommending that the person sleeps more, or step count measurements that have nothing to do with blood sampling.
Is this meant to provide value that a cheap smartphone can't?
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As I'm sure you're aware, showing an association in a population study is not the same as demonstrating causal relationships exist, communicating increased risk to individuals is difficult even when this is done by trained counsellors, and there are significant confounders (like ancestry/ethnicity) that need to be controlled for that your cited studies don't have data for.
How do you intend to address the challenge of communicating "results" to patients when interpretation at an individual level is difficult-to-impossible, the evidence is extremely flimsy, and there may be no way to address a metabolic finding?
There are some serious ethical (and probably regulatory) issues around providing "wellness data" to people while citing actionable health insights based on lab tests.
At the end of the day your site lists "results" like "you told us you sleep on average 7 hours per night", recommending that the person sleeps more, or step count measurements that have nothing to do with blood sampling.
Is this meant to provide value that a cheap smartphone can't?
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