This has to be my favorite bit of scientific nonsense in the papers in a while All these stories claiming that the new drug is as good as/better than statins IT WASN'T EVEN TESTED AGAINST STATINSpic.twitter.com/UtfdLPySpU
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Study is here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1803917 …
The other hilarious thing is that everyone is claiming that this drug has fewer side-effects than a statin, which is weird because a) it wasn't tested against statins and b) it definitely did cause side-effects
For example, about 1% of the intervention group got gout from the drug, which isn't ideal
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