"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Our Cloudy Crystal Balls: The past several years have seen claims by many researchers that we can predict risk for coronary artery disease with various biomarkers such as C-reactive protein and a host of others. Research published last week says those marker don't add much to our prognosticating abilities.
For those of you with mathematical minds here is an analysis of the statistical limitations of risk factors. posted by Sydney on
12/26/2006 08:23:00 AM
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