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To the Editor: Wolraich et al. (Feb. 3 issue)¹ concluded that neither dietary sucrose nor aspartame affects children's behavior or cognitive function, even when intake exceeds typical dietary levels. This conclusion is not justified.

The dependent variables were cognition and conduct problems, but only 5 of 48 subjects had attention-deficit disorder, and 4 had oppositional defiant disorder. The proportion of potential responders is so small that significant improvement in mean conduct scores for the group is not possible, even if sucrose caused the misconduct. At best, one might (and does) find slightly larger standard deviations and higher mean scores on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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