[Paper] ATTAIN-1 — an oral pill with no food restrictions is a bigger deal than the % suggests
Confession thread, sort of. I went from 12.5mg to 5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 23 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway. So now I have…
the 20 week readout is different from the 14 week readout
Phase 2 TRIUMPH looked amazing. Phase 3 trials are harder. Do not anchor on phase 2 readouts.
Slight fix: the number was 93.7, not 99.3. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.
Slight fix: the number was 93.7, not 99.3.
Disagree on that part. 96.8% and 96.2% on the same vial is normal.
the relative risk reduction in headlines is not the whole story
Yeah, absolute numbers matter more than the press release.
absolute risk reduction, not relative risk reduction, that is how you decide
number-needed-to-treat is the house dialect
give the trial name, phase, n, and primary endpoint in the body