SURPASS — 7 things I got wrong before I got it right
Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: SURPASS — 7 things I got wrong before I got it right. Compared myself to a trial mean for about six months before realising the trial arm had dietitian contact every fortnight. Read a press release and the publication three months apart. The hedging in the second one…
The press release said that; the publication says something more hedged. Worth reading both.
The press release said that; the publication says something more hedged.
Agreed. And the interval, not the point estimate, is what the trial actually established.
Agreed.
enzo_ferrari is right about the programme names. They are different populations with different endpoints.
Spent an evening with the appendix tables and found the subgroup detail that the entire thread had been speculating about.
Small fix — that was the cardiovascular outcomes trial, so weight was a secondary endpoint and the population was different.
That is the 68-week readout, not the 72-week one. Different trial, different duration.
Cosigning on discontinuation. It is a result about tolerability and it gets buried every time.
SELECT was cardiovascular outcomes, not weight