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wasoxygen  ·  2954 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This study shows so much of what’s wrong with medical research today

No reduction in risk of death with ischemic conditioning

    “Adoption of ischaemic conditioning cannot be recommended for routine use unless further high quality and well powered evidence shows benefit,” write Martin Gallagher (University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) and co-authors.

    As reported in The BMJ, the team analyzed results from 68 randomized controlled comparisons, and found that 205 out of 5678 patients undergoing ischemic conditioning died, compared with 219 of 5646 in the control group (risk ratio [RR]=0.96).