[Discussion] can we stop arguing about TRIUMPH until somebody posts a number
Trying to get a straight answer on this: can we stop arguing about TRIUMPH until somebody posts a number. 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…
a press release is not a publication
Argued for a week about a result and then read the limitations section, which conceded most of my opponent’s point.
trial populations get support that nobody on this board gets
Yes — the interval is the finding. A point estimate with a wide interval is a hypothesis in a nice font.
This. Intention-to-treat versus completer analysis routinely moves the headline by several points.
SELECT was cardiovascular outcomes, not weight
open-label extensions are not the same evidence as the randomised phase