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<blockquote data-quote="Claire87" data-source="post: 453700" data-attributes="member: 68396"><p>Yep, my friend sent me the NNT thing. it listed all the pointless medications people get put on when they don't actually need them:</p><p></p><p><em>NNT is Number Needed to Treat. It's the number of people who have to take a drug for one person to have a good outcome. For instance, if you are taking antibiotics for a stomach infection H pylori, the NNT is 1.1. 11 people need to take it for ten to have a good outcome.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>That's a brilliant NNT. Most of the time, with effective medications, the NNT is 3 or 4, so three or four people take it and one will have a good outcome. That's considered effective and acceptable.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>For someone who has not had a heart attack, what do you think the NNT is for statins? How many people have to take it for a year for one person not to have a heart attack?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Go on, take a guess.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Wrong!</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The answer is 450. That's right, 450 have to take statins for a year for ONE not to have a heart attack. And the rate of serious adverse reactions to statins is about 10%. So 45 people will have a serious bad reaction like muscle failure or kidney damage, to prevent one not having a heart attack.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Even if you have previously had a heart attack, the NNT for statins is 250.</em></p><p></p><p>It's kind of scary that doctors do that to their patients.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Claire87, post: 453700, member: 68396"] Yep, my friend sent me the NNT thing. it listed all the pointless medications people get put on when they don't actually need them: [i]NNT is Number Needed to Treat. It's the number of people who have to take a drug for one person to have a good outcome. For instance, if you are taking antibiotics for a stomach infection H pylori, the NNT is 1.1. 11 people need to take it for ten to have a good outcome. That's a brilliant NNT. Most of the time, with effective medications, the NNT is 3 or 4, so three or four people take it and one will have a good outcome. That's considered effective and acceptable. For someone who has not had a heart attack, what do you think the NNT is for statins? How many people have to take it for a year for one person not to have a heart attack? Go on, take a guess. Wrong! The answer is 450. That's right, 450 have to take statins for a year for ONE not to have a heart attack. And the rate of serious adverse reactions to statins is about 10%. So 45 people will have a serious bad reaction like muscle failure or kidney damage, to prevent one not having a heart attack. Even if you have previously had a heart attack, the NNT for statins is 250.[/i] It's kind of scary that doctors do that to their patients. [/QUOTE]
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