TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of Partial Ileal Bypass Surgery on Coronary Heart Disease
AU - POSCH Group
AU - Moscucci, Mauro
AU - Sorrentino, Matthew
AU - Waldstein, David
AU - Basinski, Antoni
AU - Moore, Thomas J.
AU - Schwartz, Marshall Z.
AU - Buchwald, Henry
PY - 1991/2/21
Y1 - 1991/2/21
N2 - To the Editor: Buchwald et al. (Oct. 4 issue)* do a disservice to their careful study by presenting their data in a confusing and incomplete fashion. In the section “Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality,” they report 44 deaths in the control group and 32 deaths in the surgery group that were due to atherosclerotic coronary heart disease. However, in the section “End Points Combined with Mortality,” they report only 29 and 23 deaths from this cause in the control and surgery groups, respectively. They also do not tell us how many patients had recurrent nonfatal myocardial infarctions, nor is it possible.
AB - To the Editor: Buchwald et al. (Oct. 4 issue)* do a disservice to their careful study by presenting their data in a confusing and incomplete fashion. In the section “Overall and Cause-Specific Mortality,” they report 44 deaths in the control group and 32 deaths in the surgery group that were due to atherosclerotic coronary heart disease. However, in the section “End Points Combined with Mortality,” they report only 29 and 23 deaths from this cause in the control and surgery groups, respectively. They also do not tell us how many patients had recurrent nonfatal myocardial infarctions, nor is it possible.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM199102213240813
DO - 10.1056/NEJM199102213240813
M3 - Letter
C2 - 1824017
AN - SCOPUS:0026064169
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 324
SP - 562
EP - 564
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 8
ER -
