What is a Contortionist?For ordinally people like us ,it's like a hardest sport that we can do for our body..What do you know about Contortion also (known as contortionism)?
It is an unusual form of physical display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.Statistical contortionism is the art of converting healthy people into patients by using numbers to exaggerate drug benefits.
Lipitor is a prime example. Drug companies and physicians use "relative risk reduction" while ignoring the "absolute risk reduction" in order to promote Lipitor use to a wider audience. This practice of statistical contortionism is akin to hiding evidence because it exaggerates benefits. See for yourself.
Lipitor promoters insist that those with so-called high cholesterol can achieve a 36% "relative risk reduction" in heart attack by using the cholesterol-lowering drug. The contortionists ignore that the same raw data can yield a more revealing "absolute risk reduction" of a paltry 1%. Using absolute risk reduction is more accurate because it compares the actual difference between the treated and untreated groups. Unfortunately, it is not good for increasing sales.BTW check out our previous post about 5 Reasons to Get Off Cholesterol Lowering Drugs
That Lipitor does not prevent heart attack is a death-blow to promoters. It goes virtually unnoticed because they push the absolute risk reduction under the drug-rug while magnifying relative risk reduction. This type of advertising disguised as science is the most dangerous trend in journalism today. It promotes drug use among healthy populations who are needlessly putting themselves at risk for adverse effects of Lipitor like cancer and heart failure.Check out:
Hidden Truth about Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs
Wellness Tips Blog
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