how much of what we believe about endpoint actually comes from FLOW threads
Question in the title, detail here: how much of what we believe about endpoint actually comes from FLOW threads. Went looking for the registered protocol to see whether the endpoint had changed. It had not, which was reassuring and worth checking. How to read one of these papers in fifteen minutes, in the order that…
Retitled: the original quoted a diabetes endpoint as an obesity result.
read the endpoint before you read the headline
intention to treat versus completers changes the number substantially
SURPASS is the diabetes programme and reports glycaemic endpoints
Small fix — that was the cardiovascular outcomes trial, so weight was a secondary endpoint and the population was different.
Cosigning on discontinuation. It is a result about tolerability and it gets buried every time.
discontinuation rate is a result, not a footnote
How long was the randomised phase before any extension?