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Revisiting: Journal club: SURMOUNT-OSA and a hard endpoint in a soft field posts 121–123

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d.petrescuTL220 Jul 2026#121

Picking up post #120: that is the part I would want checked first.

SURMOUNT-OSA has been discussed here with more heat than it deserves, mostly because two definitions have been in play the whole time.

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i.coelhoTL220 Jul 2026#122

The baseline characteristics table is the single most useful page for the questions that get asked here, because it tells you who the result applies to.

Adding the caveat now so it does not have to be extracted later.

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c.dahlbergTL221 Jul 2026 · edited#123

The most useful thing anyone has posted about SURMOUNT-OSA in this category was a table of what had been measured and by whom. That is what I would want again.

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