There was a good interview on the Today programme (sorry I didn't catch
the name of the interviewee) which stressed that although the relative
increase in risk was large, the absolute risk was still small, and
repeated several times that the observed increase in heart(?) disease was
just 8 women in 10000.
Andrew
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Ward, Bob wrote:
> I wonder whether anybody has any thoughts about today's coverage of the
> study into the risks associated with the use of Prempro, a type of hormone
> replacement therapy.
<snip>
> Many of the newspapers did express the increased risk in terms of additional
> cases per 10,000 women, although they did not explicitly point out the
> incidence in the control group. I haven't heard or seen much of the
> broadcast coverage, but I am assuming that it was similar.
<snip>
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