Statin Data Criminally Manipulated to Deceive Doctors
= Their paper is an analysis of the data in the statin trials which led them to conclude that “statin advocates have used statistical deception to create the illusion that statins are ‘wonder drugs,’ when the reality is that their modest benefits are more than offset by their adverse effects.”
The paper also describes how the basis of the deception is in how authors of the statin studies present the rate of beneficial and adverse effects. The effect of the drugs on the population is called the ‘absolute risk,’ which has shown that statins benefit only about 1% of the population. This means that only one out of 100 people treated with a statin will have one less heart attack. Statin researchers, however, don’t present the 1% effect to the public. Instead they transform the 1% effect using another statistic, called the “relative risk,” which creates the appearance that statins benefit 30-50% of the population.
* How statistical deception created the appearance that statins are safe and effective in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
March 2015, Vol. 8, No. 2 , Pages 201-210 (doi:10.1586/17512433.2015.1012494)
– http://healthresearchreport.me/2015/02/20/statin-drug-data-criminaly-manipulated-to-show-exaggerated-benefit-and-reduced-risk/
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