what are the odds?

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http://www.medicalconsumers.org/pages/statin-treatmentguidelines.htm

Statin-Treatment Guidelines: 198 to 1 odds that the drug won’t help

Would you go on long-term statin drug therapy if you knew that the odds are one in 23,000 that the drug will save you from a cardiac death? How about one in 198? And are you prepared to stay on that drug for the rest of your life, though the full story on the drug’s harms is yet to be known? That is what the experts who put together the U.S. and Canadian statin-treatment guidelines expect of the public, according to an analysis published last month in the BMJ (http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/332/7555/1419).

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Unfortunately people rarely ask their Drs if the drugs he prescribes will kill or maim them - in fact I'd say that only one in 198 might ask anything about the treatment they get. Blind faith is just that.

 

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Clares Primus

Monday, March 24, 2008 9:18 PM

what are the odds?

 

 

 

http://www.medicalconsumers.org/pages/statin-treatmentguidelines.htm

Statin-Treatment Guidelines: 198 to 1 odds that the drug won’t help

Would you go on long-term statin drug therapy if you knew that the odds are one in 23,000 that the drug will save you from a cardiac death? How about one in 198? And are you prepared to stay on that drug for the rest of your life, though the full story on the drug’s harms is yet to be known? That is what the experts who put together the U.S. and Canadian statin-treatment guidelines expect of the public, according to an analysis published last month in the BMJ (http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/332/7555/1419).

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