TrialNerd_Beth said:Relative and absolute effects need reading together.
Agreed, and subgroup analyses deserve particular suspicion. With enough subgroups something is significant by chance, and pre-registered subgroups are a different animal from ones found afterwards.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
jennifer_SEA said:Worth adding that the tablet is taken daily, so a missed dose costs far less than a missed weekly injection.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it.
TrialNerd_Beth said:Relative and absolute effects need reading together.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. I would add the less popular caveat: these trial populations under-represented several groups, older adults and the highest BMI categories among them. The results probably generalise, and "probably" should be stated as an assumption rather than dropped.
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Worth separating that from the trial evidence, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.