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23:31 April 13th, 2007

The wrong results…

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Posted by: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Editor
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New type of drug helpful in type 2 diabetes

Patients in the anakinra group achieved an A1C level - an indicator of long term glucose control — that was 46 percent lower than that of patients given the placebo.

This is incorrect. The abstract of the NEJM article says … “0.46 percentage point lower…” That means about half a percentage point, rather than 46 percentage points. This is a significant error, and is highly misleading.

T.K

Several people noticed this one. We corrected: GBU Editor

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