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To: steve86

Repatha cut by 20 percent the combined risk of having either a heart attack, stroke or a heart-related death. That happened to nearly 6 percent of people on Repatha versus more than 7 percent on the dummy drug.


So, placebo had a more widespread effect. ...and how was the cut in risk measured if not by number of people having an effect?


5 posted on 03/19/2017 9:01:39 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

Ah...the 6% vs. 7% is the portion that had the heart attack or stroke, or heart-related death.


8 posted on 03/19/2017 9:05:05 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

agreed - big pharma is a racket

my doc prescribed some statins 15 years ago. I nicely told him I ignore his reccomendation.

latest blood work

LDH -125
HDH - 45

real food and physical activity beat drugs -always


28 posted on 03/20/2017 3:04:56 AM PDT by vooch
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To: lepton

A 20 percent cut in 6 percent of people taking it.. I agree, it’s placebo or random error rate. How about patient with a multi-generations history of cardiac related mortality? Sensationalized statistics to give people the false hope they will have this very minute outcome.


38 posted on 03/20/2017 6:44:21 AM PDT by momincombatboots (pathway to citizenship... Amnesty history repeats. Walling Illegals In wasn't the idea moron!)
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