Relative Risk vs Absolute Risk Reduction
I have written often and spoken repeatedly to so many of my patients about relative versus absolute risk. This is so widespread in the medical literature, scientific literature and even in all advertising. I am always waiting for that “aha moment” when you understand how relative risk management is chicanery. It is used to sell you product. To amplify, inflate or conflate results. I am prompted to write this blog by a recent meta-analysis published in JAMA Neurology May 13,…
