[2026 update] Cardiovascular risk: reading the outcome trials as a set
Post #39 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.
Where the Cardiovascular risk discussion usually stalls is that nobody wants to say "I do not know" and everyone is willing to say "it varies". Those are the same sentence with different clothes on.
Acknowledging rather than arguing. The reasoning holds as far as I can follow it.
One more thing on Cardiovascular risk that took me far too long to see: the two figures people quote are not measuring the same quantity. Once you notice that, the apparent contradiction disappears.
I read post #49 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.
Worth separating Cardiovascular risk as a question about the compound from Cardiovascular risk as a question about the documentation. They get answered by different people and only one of them is answerable here.
I would rather this thread reach "we do not know" about Cardiovascular risk than reach a confident answer that nobody can support when asked.
Post #84 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.
Nothing here is medical advice and clinicians posting in this subcategory say so on their own account rather than because a rule requires it.
Reading it again, the caveat matters more than the finding.
Right, and stated more narrowly than I would have dared to state it.
Thank you for taking the time. That was more work than a reply usually is.
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