| category | factcheck |
| score | Mostly True 🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩 |
| claim | "E-cigarettes tied to prediabetes odds" |
| url | https://www.medpagetoday.com/pulmonology/smoking/97488 |
| author | MedPage Today, / Lei Lei  Wu |
| tags | ['third-party-fact-check', 'linguistic-analysis', 'title-exacerbation'] |

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Somewhat more detailed article that reviews a PR study on blood sugar level
risks from nicotine, vaping, or smoking.  It did look at the actual
findings, yet still rehashes most of the questionable claims.

> [PR study attributes prediabetes to e-cig usage](doc/trunk/factcheck/10.1016/j.amepre.2021.12.009.md)

### assessment

 * It's not a tabloid publication, and the title is slightly less imperatively wrong.
 * <q>may be linked</q> dials it back a notch, but is still a weasel phrase
 * Article represents a full statistic and data points (non-mainstream audience).
 * Doesn't note Johns Hopkins` questionable track record on this topic.
 * The <q>prevalence of e-cigarette use among young adults and adolescents is rising rapidly</q> lie was reprinted here.
 * Nonetheless it's clearly more of a "study says" article.
 * <q>In addition, the study "could not rule out diet-related information, which would reduce the observed association to the null," they wrote.</q> for instance is not just lifted from the press release, but buried in the study.

### verdict

While this article spreads a poor study onto the medical community, it does make
quite a few fair attempts at dissecting and grading the findings. Hence would put
this into "mostly true" territory.



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