[Paper] ATTAIN-1 — an oral pill with no food restrictions is a bigger deal than the % suggests
Confession thread, sort of. I went from 12.5mg to 5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 23 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway. So now I have…
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Mechanistically the bit that matters is TRIUMPH. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.
dropout handling matters, especially on GI-heavy populations
the relative risk reduction in headlines is not the whole story
Strongly agree. Phase 2 is investigational, not conclusive.
STEP, SURMOUNT, SURPASS, SELECT, FLOW, TRIUMPH — read the appendix
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Adding to this: SURMOUNT is doing more work than the comment implies.
dropout handling matters, especially on GI-heavy populations
the relative risk reduction in headlines is not the whole story