Word: stroke
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...however, that if you want to survive a bout of bacterial pneumonia, antibiotics are your best bet, and nobody would want to go into cardiac arrest without a crash cart handy. "Where randomized trials are most important is where you're trying to affect a long-term condition, like stroke or cancer," Glasziou says...
...effort to handicap those odds is where NNT comes in. It answers the question, How many people have to take this drug to avoid one heart attack? The same principle can be applied to avoiding one recurrence of cancer or stroke or whatever end point you choose to measure. In healthy men, the NNT for statins is about 50 (depending on which of dozens of statins is taken, age, family history, lifestyle and so on). So 50 men have to take these drugs in order to prevent a single--not necessarily fatal, heart attack...
...Harvard Corporation meeting, a member attacked him for his habit of “ignoring the votes of the corporation with which he did not agree.” Problems with listening and collaboration were to remain a continuing affliction of Harvard presidents. In 1828, still ill from a stroke he suffered in 1827, Kirkland resigned...
...primarily annoyed with the portrayal of Stebbins as the stereotypical Harvard student who is unable to think or talk about anything but her schoolwork. While there is a sizable population of students who really cannot talk about anything else, there are also many of us who, by some bizarre stroke of luck or imagination, manage to go to class and do our schoolwork while still cultivating friendships whose bases extend far beyond mutual self-absorbed commiseration. I also did not sit for any final exams this semester, but, after finishing my work early in the month, I was somehow able...
...human health.” In fact, trans fats decrease levels of HDL ‘good’ cholesterol and increase levels of LDL ‘bad’ cholesterol in the body. This directly increases a person’s risk of heart disease and stroke...