A recent study found a correlation between gum disease and heart disease. This result indicates that gum disease causes people to develop heart disease.

True or False?

False

Step-by-step explanation:

Correlation measures the strength of the relation between two variables.

Further, Correlation is said to be positive if increasing/decreasing the one variable, also increases/decreases the values of another variable.

Correlation is said to be negative if increasing/decreasing the one variable, also decreases/increases the values of another variable.

Since we don't know here exists a positive correlation or negative correlation.

So here are two possible conditions:

The person who has Gum disease also has heart disease.

And, the person has Gum disease can never have heart disease.

Thus, the given statement is false.