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John Burns
Posted 3/14/2020 16:50 (#8104545 - in reply to #8104449)
Subject: This is the one I was looking for......absolute vs relative risk



Pittsburg, Kansas

Watch this one to see statistically how much statins improve outcomes in randomized trials. Note how statistics are used to make them seem more beneficial than they actually are.A 50% improvemnt does not mean much if the rate of incidence is only one in ten thousand.  So you save 1.5 lives in ten thousand. Yet it would be reported as "a 50% improvement in outcome". Or even if it were one in one thousand. Who would take a drug for that kind of improvement? Yet all you have to do is watch the TV ads to see the drug companies use these kind of statistics to get people on their drugs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIPn4CLNMa4

More on Kendrick          https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dr+malcolm+kendrick+

John



Edited by John Burns 3/14/2020 18:13
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