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Avalux

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2. Interesting, but a retrospective study with a sample size of 106 isn't difinitive.

Reply to UglyGreed (Original post)

Tue Jun 9, 2015, 12:53 PM

Jun 2015

It's difficult to make statistical heads or tails out of the data.

On a personal note, two of my daughters had general anesthesia before the age of three, one for eye surgery and the other for tube insertion of the ears. Neither of them are impaired in any way.

I wouldn't put much stock in these results until well-controlled prospective studies with a large enough sample size are performed.

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My son had to go under UglyGreed Jun 2015 #1

Interesting, but a retrospective study with a sample size of 106 isn't difinitive. Avalux Jun 2015 #2

Well I noticed UglyGreed Jun 2015 #3

Let me try to clarify, I may not have said that very well. Avalux Jun 2015 #5

I'm sorry UglyGreed Jun 2015 #6

No worries! Avalux Jun 2015 #7

Oh let me add UglyGreed Jun 2015 #4