Zinc effects on common cold duration illustrate problems of routine statistical analyses

Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 21:31 in Health & Medicine

Two randomized trials that examined the effects of zinc lozenges for the duration of common cold symptoms found that colds were shortened on average by 4.0 days and by 1.77 days. However, the shortest colds in the placebo groups of both studies lasted for only two days.

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