SURPASS — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right
Thinking out loud about this: SURPASS — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right. Started keeping the trial identifiers straight in a note file because I kept mixing up two programmes in the same sentence. Went looking for the registered protocol to see whether the endpoint had changed. It had not, which was…
Open-label extensions lose their randomisation. Anybody still enrolled at week 104 is a selected group and the numbers describe that group.
Disagree — that figure is from the diabetes programme and you are quoting it as an obesity endpoint.
Careful with that mean. The distribution around it was wide enough that it describes very few individual participants.
Correction: SURMOUNT is the obesity programme and SURPASS is the diabetes one. The figure you quoted belongs to the other one.
Spent an evening with the appendix tables and found the subgroup detail that the entire thread had been speculating about.
How long was the randomised phase before any extension?