Open AccessThe BMJ statins papers misrepresent the facts
Author(s) -
Peter Sever
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
bmj
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.831
H-Index - 429
ISSN - 1756-1833
DOI - 10.1136/bmj.g4030
Subject(s) - zhàng , psychology , statin , medicine , law and economics , epistemology , law , sociology , political science , philosophy , china
I fully support Rory Collins’s request that The BMJ retracts Abramson and colleagues’ and Malhotra’s papers.1 2 3 The authors totally misrepresent Zhang and colleagues’ claims that statins were causally related to side effects in 20% of statin users.4 The two papers also imply that these side effects were not reported in trials because trial sponsors could have influenced the results and downplayed the …
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