Posted by SLS on January 5, 2013, at 20:01:53
In reply to Lou's warning-uhnkhuvr, posted by Lou Pilder on January 5, 2013, at 17:44:58
> It is written here,[...it (Trileptal) lacks the risk of...cognitive impairments...].
> My friemds, be not deceived.,Do you feel that I exaggerated? I probably should have said "much reduced risk".
Do you think I should be blocked from posting for exaggerating?
It would be okay if you were to think this of me. I think this of you.
You chose to use the eHealthMe website again?
"On Dec, 31, 2012: 10,588 people reported to have side effects when taking Trileptal. Among them, 296 people (2.80%) have Memory Impairment."
Don't forget how to use statistics. Did it escape you that more than 10,588 people have taken Trileptal since it was first approved in the year 2000?
"This is a real world study of Memory impairment (Memory loss) among people who take Trileptal. It is created by eHealthMe based on 296 reports from FDA and user community. In total 10,593 Trileptal users are studied."
The eHealthMe "user community" is not the FDA. It very well might be that the FDA reported exactly one case, and the eHealthMe community 295 cases since the year 2000. Do you know what the statistics are on this? I do know that eHealthMe has displayed a graph that shows that only 15 complaints exist for the year 2012. At the 2.8% rate of reports they calculate, this would mean that only 535 people took Trileptal that year? What about the year 2010 when eHealthMe claims to have counted 48 cases. This means that only 1714 people took Trileptal that year?
This is how disinformation works.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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