[Meta] the FLOW rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the FLOW rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. Nothing about this affects the ranking maths, before anyone asks. On means, which this board treats as targets and which are nothing of the sort. A reported mean body weight change is the centre of a distribution that in these trials is very wide.…
open-label extensions are not the same evidence as the randomised phase
What did the confidence interval look like?
That is a relative risk reduction. Quoting it without the absolute numbers overstates the case considerably.
intention to treat versus completers changes the number substantially
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STEP is semaglutide obesity, SURMOUNT is tirzepatide obesity, they are not interchangeable