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Comment by Dalia Stern

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Nutrition epidemiologist; coauthor of a 2026 AJCN paper on target-trial methods in nutrition research
Given that diet is dynamic, multidimensional, and multifactorial, causal questions of dietary exposures are often complex. Consequently, research questions are often poorly defined, making study findings difficult to interpret and implement in the real world.
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Dalia Stern, coauthor of “Best (but oft forgotten) practices: Applying the target trial framework in nutrition research,” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, July 2026.
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Observational nutrition studies are too confounded to show whether eggs cause harm
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Disputed The quote is real and appears verbatim in the abstract on the provided Aarhus University source URL, which lists the publication as July 2026. However, that page attributes the article to six individual authors—Michael Fridén, Conor J. MacDonald, Deirdre K. Tobias, Dalia Stern, Yu Han Chiu, and Daniel B. Ibsen—not to Dalia Stern alone. Because this platform cannot verify a multi-author journal article as a single-author quote, the stored attribution is disputed. ([pure.au.dk](https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/best-but-oft-forgotten-practices-applying-the-target-trial-framew/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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