This assignment is about fact-checking cited resources. It is not about the effe

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This assignment is about fact-checking cited resources. It is not about the effectiveness of cranberry juice on UTIs. You are asked to go to one of the sources cited and see if the statement in the article MATCHES the information provided by the cited reference. The article states, "Because E coli represents the majority of urinary isolates among nursing home residents, cranberry products remain an appealing UTI prevention strategy, but evidence is conflicting.9,10 " Footnotes 9 and 10 give you the sources for this statement: .

9. Jepson RG, Williams G, Craig JC. Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012;10:CD001321. PubMed

10. Wang CH, Fang CC, Chen NC, et al. Cranberry-containing products for prevention of urinary tract infections in susceptible populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Arch Intern Med. 2012;172(13):988-996. PubMed Article

Go to one of these original sources cited in the footnotes, and determine if the statement in the article is accurately supported by the original research or not. Share this determination, in your own words, and be specific why you came to this conclusion. This assignment is about fact-checking cited resources. It is not about the effectiveness of cranberry juice on UTIs.

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So After visitng the site and researching for point 9.

There the statement is " Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections" but in the research conducted and the conclusion drawn it was deemed insignificant and the results not conclusively pointing at Cranberries usage preventing urinary tract infections, so there is no clear statistical significance of the statement. These are compared to antibiotics, which were used to prevent UTI but by these minimal study cranberry juice cannot be recommended for the prevention of UTIs. And other preparations of Cranberries need to be clinically tested and amount needs to be adjudged before any recommendation.

So, the statement is not actually validating the point no 9 " Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections" but rather takes this hypothesis and concludes that the hypothesis can not be accepted.

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