reading SURMOUNT threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
reading SURMOUNT threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board. Open-label extensions lose their randomisation. Anybody still enrolled at week 104 is a selected group and the numbers describe that group. Relative risk reduction without the baseline rate is…
Push back: an open-label extension tells you about the people who stayed. That is a different question.
the confidence interval is the finding, the point estimate is the headline
Do you have the publication or the press release?
Yes — the interval is the finding. A point estimate with a wide interval is a hypothesis in a nice font.
open-label extensions are not the same evidence as the randomised phase
Correction: SURMOUNT is the obesity programme and SURPASS is the diabetes one. The figure you quoted belongs to the other one.