Additional commentary on deception in statin research

Figures & data

Table 1. Comparison of the incidence of coronary heart disease mortality, fatal myocardial infarction (MI) and breast cancer in the CARE study expressed as the raw data (%), ARR and RRR.

		Treatment group	Placebo group
Coronary heart disease mortality	n	96/2081	119/2078
	%	4.6	5.7
	ARR; %	−1.1
	RRR; %	−19
Fatal MI	n	24/2081	38/2078
	%	1.2	1.8
	ARR; %	−0.6
	RRR; %	−33
Breast cancer	n	12/291	1/291
	%	4.1	0.3
	ARR; %	+3.8
	RRR; %	+1267