We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
pharmaceutical companies will almost always report relative risk reduction and downplay absolute risk reduction with regard to statin efficacy is very important people understand and as you're suggesting they look very different in terms of the amount of effect
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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all this 32% reduction in that forty five percent reduction in this unless you know for the absolute reduction is the relative reduction is meaningless
the statistics on them is presented in certain ways to make them sound directly beneficial so for instance there's a study came out showing literature or reduce the risk of heart attacks by 36 percent now those figures are true but when you reanalyze them in say okay what was a heart attack well the heart attacks are not necessarily fatal heart attacks can be very mild one of the problems with with the statin trials is a heart attack heart attack whether it killed you or or cause the transient raisin enzymes so so you have a huge different outcomes they're all full pulled into one outcome which is a bad thing
Um but actually, when you look at that data, you realize that we were ourselves had an exaggerated belief in these medications because we were we were thinking uh you know, in relative risk terms, and not absolute risk terms, first and foremost.
And I think one of the reasons we were indoctrinated again is that we wouldn't question, you know, medical journals who would say this is, you know, if you take a statin, you've had a heart attack, you've got maybe a 50 or 70% uh you know, risk reduction if you're high risk, for example, you've had a heart attack from having another heart attack. And uh and we believed it all without even accepting or thinking about any alternative or the fact that this could have been corrupted information.