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Doing statistics can be difficult but understanding them can be fairly simple

Sensible Medicine

A couple of real-life examples A) The main outcome from the 2000 HOPE trial (ramipril versus placebo in higher cardiovascular risk patients) was the risk of heart attacks/strokes (CVD) over 5 years. if the risk of heart attacks/strokes in each group was the same, say, 10%, then the risk ratio, 10%/10% = 1. in favour of ramipril.

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Health to The Chief!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Woodrow Wilson Wilson suffered several strokes, and was isolated in the White House by his second wife, Edith, who allowed only herself and his physician to see him. He survived only four months into his fourth term, dying of a massive hemorrhagic stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia, where he would vacation and do physical therapy.

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