The surrogate battle – is lower always better?

Format: Postgraduate and professional

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Language/s: 3-3 Are the treatments practical in your setting?

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Resource Link: View the Video

Target Audience: 2-6 Peoples' outcomes should be assessed similarly

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Short Description:

James McCormick recruits a furious Fuhrer to point out that taking drugs to lower surrogate measures of ill health is a confidence trick.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 2-10 All fair comparisons and outcomes should be reported

Details

I put this up to make people smile but to also get across the point that if you think that lowering blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose with medications always reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes etc then you really need to look at the evidence.