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Dr Vyom Sharma
Dr Vyom Sharma
@drvyom.bsky.social
Australian GP #medsky Broadcaster Magic Creator at DARK CUBE www.vyomsharma.com.au I miss the racism on twitter.
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I also think our (often valid) policing of language used by reporters can amount to infantilizing paternalism. “I read this headline, I understood it, I learned a new fact from it, but it’s BAD because less-savvy people could have their tiny minds warped by the phrasing and I must protect them.”
I'm saying this as someone who spends a large part of my working life ironing out small differences in questionnaire wording, but I really do think many people who like language overindex on how much phrasing matters to the way people react to news they encounter in their daily life.
Link: www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... Weaknesses: - main outcome, null trial slightly underpowered - the 3mm Hg reduction was in a subgroup analysis (pre-specified though which is good) - not clear if the study was powered adequately for this subgroup analysis
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Dr Vyom Sharma reposted
New NEJM trial on Tirzepatide for HFpEF. I have 2 questions #medsky Claim: Treatment led to lower risk of a composite of death from CV causes or worsening HF. Q1: Is it weird to claim a COMPOSITE win, when there were HIGHER deaths due to CV causes in treatment group? www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
A coprimary endpoint was change in Baseline in the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (100 point scale) - which was between-group difference, 6.9 Q2: Couldn't much of the gap in scores happen purely due to weight loss? look at the questions. Also, placebo group improved by 12.7 points!