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The J-shaped curve: fact or fiction?

Cardiovasc J Afr · 2010 · PMC5782841 · PMID 20972523

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showed a trendno p-value reported
‘Intensively treated diabetic patients in the ACCORD study, for example, suffered no deleterious effects and all their outcomes showed a trend in a favourable direction.’ He feels that, in the main, researchers are too obsessed with p-values and that statistical significance may not necessarily translate into therapeutic benefit. ‘I am firmly in the camp that believes lower to be better.

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