genuine question about TRIUMPH that I am slightly embarrassed to ask
The title is the whole question — genuine question about TRIUMPH that I am slightly embarrassed to ask — but here is why I am asking. Discontinuation rates are a tolerability result. A trial with a strong efficacy number and heavy discontinuation is telling you two things and people only quote one. The registered…
Started keeping the trial identifiers straight in a note file because I kept mixing up two programmes in the same sentence.
That is the 68-week readout, not the 72-week one. Different trial, different duration.
Cardiovascular outcome trials are powered for events, not for weight, and are typically run in a different population with different inclusion criteria. Reading a weight number out of one is reading a secondary endpoint.
Compared myself to a trial mean for about six months before realising the trial arm had dietitian contact every fortnight.
SURPASS is the diabetes programme and reports glycaemic endpoints
intention to treat versus completers changes the number substantially
phase 2 finds a dose, phase 3 measures the effect