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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4359)2/8/2008 10:23:19 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
I guess you were not aware that proportional to population more Canadians than Americans participated in the study.

Just think of how many deaths worldwide and American study will save. Another free rider pops up. A few Americans die to save countless lives. It is very sad for the diabetics who have dies and for their families. I wonder how many would do it all over again to save lives.

Unexpected number of deaths forces halt to part of U.S.-Canadian diabetes study

The Accord study, which began in 2001, enrolled 10,251 people from the United States and Canada, who, on average, had been diabetic for about 10 years. All had either had cardiovascular events or two heart disease risk factors in addition to diabetes, such as obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels or they were smokers.

The study, which included 1,500 people in Canada, was designed to determine whether intensive lowering of blood sugar levels, intensive lowering of blood pressure or treatment of blood lipids (fats) with a triglyceride lowering drug called a fibrate plus a statin drug could reduce the risk of major cardiovascular disease events in Type 2 diabetics at especially high risk of having them.

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Lets do a little arithmetic.

10251 total enrollment less 1500 Canadians leaves 8751 other participants.

If all the remainder were from the U.S. a proportional number of Canadians would be would be 963 based on a 9:1 population ratio. Therefore Canadians were enrolled (and presumably died) at a 55% higher rate than U.S. participants.
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