Talk:Vertebral artery dissection

message: Review by basically everyone who has some authority in this subject: doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(15)00009-5 JFW | T@lk 14:22, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intracranial dissection 

message: This "Whiplash has been studied as a major contributor to VADhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20720428" is based on a primary source of 8 cases and adds little to what is already in the article. Thus moved here for discussion. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:03, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: A secondary source was added, but I have tweaked it a bit because it was used to attribute unrelated content. JFW | T@lk 20:24, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Whiplash

message: …and consider if the statement is accurate or not. Is use of the word "predispose" here standard, and best practice? Predispose in ordinary language means to make susceptible. Is this correct here — that having migraines or an aortic root aneurism makes people susceptible? I.e., is it indeed the case, that a longitudinal study was done of migraine and aortic aneurism groups, and in these groups, a higher than control group number of VADs were found later to have accrued?
 * "Presence of an aneurysm of the aortic root and a history of migraine may predispose to vertebral artery dissection."
Otherwise, apart from such a study, I think the best that can be said is "correlated", even if at some point the single review might have said predisposed. (This seems to be either a misstatement what the literature cited states, or perhaps a poor construction in that source.) 
Moreover, relative to other possible language possible, use of "predispose" seems, overly much, to imply "causality." I could imagine various underlying (genetic, traumatic) causes giving rise to all three, but would like to see citation of evidence that the migraine or the aneurism has a causal connection to the VAD.
Cheers, leave it your capable (medical) hands.  Le Prof  71.201.62.200 (talk) 04:31, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please search the following phrase 

message: Jytdog, I think that adding the quote was a good idea with this edit, however, I am more partial to the wording I used over your wording for the text. I prefer "has been suggested" rather than "may be", but this may just be my personal academic writing style moreso than what is actually correct. Just commenting with my thoughts. 2001:56A:75B7:9B00:4525:C63F:8995:A572 (talk) 04:48, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It is best to use the active voice in encyclopedia writing; using the passive voice just invites "says who"? Jytdog (talk) 04:56, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem, it is not that important to me, I guess it is just my own stylistic preference. I would suggest that the answer to 'says who?' is 'the source provided'.2001:56A:75B7:9B00:4525:C63F:8995:A572 (talk) 05:00, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
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