A prospective study on the relationship between aspirin use and heart attacks by the Physicians’ Health Study Research Group at Harvard Medical School is presented below. The Physicians’ Health Study was a 5-year randomized study of whether regular aspirin intake reduces risk of myocardial infarction or heart attack. Every other day, physicians participating in the study took either one aspirin tablet or a placebo. The study was blind ---those in the study did not know whether they were taking aspirin or a placebo. Of the 11,034 physicians taking a placebo, 189 suffered heart attacks over the course of the study, whereas of the 11,037 taking aspirin, 104 had heart attacks. Can we say that the intake of aspirin appears to diminish the risk of myocardial infarction? LOOK AT THE IMAGE (table) THAT I ATTACHED Let patients taking placebo be the first group and those taking aspirin in the second group. Calculate the following and make an interpretation: confidence interval for risk difference confidence interval for relative risk confidence interval for odds ratio
A prospective study on the relationship between aspirin use and heart attacks by the Physicians’ Health Study Research Group at Harvard Medical School is presented below. The Physicians’ Health Study was a 5-year randomized study of whether regular aspirin intake reduces risk of myocardial infarction or heart attack. Every other day, physicians participating in the study took either one aspirin tablet or a placebo. The study was blind ---those in the study did not know whether they were taking aspirin or a placebo.
Of the 11,034 physicians taking a placebo, 189 suffered heart attacks over the course of the study, whereas of the 11,037 taking aspirin, 104 had heart attacks. Can we say that the intake of aspirin appears to diminish the risk of myocardial infarction?
LOOK AT THE IMAGE (table) THAT I ATTACHED
Let patients taking placebo be the first group and those taking aspirin in the second group. Calculate the following and make an interpretation:
- confidence interval for risk difference
- confidence interval for relative risk
- confidence interval for odds ratio
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