31: Discover your psychiatric risk with this one weird trick - a podcast by Dan Quintana

Dan and James discuss a recent study of over one million Swedish men that found that higher resting heart rate late adolescence was associated with an increased risk for subsequent psychiatric illness.
Some of the topics covered:How did these authors get such an enormous dataset?
The benefits of testing so many peopleWhat we liked about the study (hint: lots of things)
Measuring cardiovascular efficiency using a cycle ergometerThe pitfalls of self-reported physical activity
How the media covered this studyContextual factors - does the testing environment induce anxiety?
Co-morbidity in psychiatryWhat would James do with 200,000 ECGs strips?
LinksThe paper
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2569454The Daily Mail story
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3875062/Why-heartbeat-teenager-affect-later-life-Boys-high-blood-pressure-risk-mental-health-problems-adults.html?linkId=30382089Facebook page
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