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<blockquote data-quote="LucySW" data-source="post: 858606" data-attributes="member: 113749"><p>That article is excellent. It explains what relative risk is and re-expresses it in terms of absolute risk. </p><p></p><p>The fact that I like the article BTW does not mean I am a maniacal anti-statins person. Just a logical person. In the case of statins, logic leads one to say No thanks, unless one has already had a CVD episode (in which case after treatment for five years one has a 1 in 83 chance of delaying death, a 1 in 39 chance of avoiding a non-fatal heart attack, and a 1 in 125 chance of avoiding a stroke, according to the review on the <a href="http://www.thennt.com/" target="_blank">NNT site</a> Indy posted above).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LucySW, post: 858606, member: 113749"] That article is excellent. It explains what relative risk is and re-expresses it in terms of absolute risk. The fact that I like the article BTW does not mean I am a maniacal anti-statins person. Just a logical person. In the case of statins, logic leads one to say No thanks, unless one has already had a CVD episode (in which case after treatment for five years one has a 1 in 83 chance of delaying death, a 1 in 39 chance of avoiding a non-fatal heart attack, and a 1 in 125 chance of avoiding a stroke, according to the review on the [URL='http://www.thennt.com/']NNT site[/URL] Indy posted above). [/QUOTE]
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