[PSA] STEP is not what most of this community thinks it is
STEP is not what most of this community thinks it is — with the reasoning, because a rule without a reason gets ignored. Started keeping the trial identifiers straight in a note file because I kept mixing up two programmes in the same sentence. Quoted a figure here confidently, got asked whether it was ITT, went and…
Retitled: the original quoted a diabetes endpoint as an obesity result.
SELECT was cardiovascular outcomes, not weight
Push back: an open-label extension tells you about the people who stayed. That is a different question.
Push back: an open-label extension tells you about the people who stayed.
This is the distinction that would end about half the arguments on this board.
Compared myself to a trial mean for about six months before realising the trial arm had dietitian contact every fortnight.
Push back: an open-label extension tells you about the people who stayed.
iman_castellanos is right about the programme names. They are different populations with different endpoints.