Why You Should Never Trust a Percentage in a Headline
Relative risk vs absolute risk: it’s the one distinction that changes how you read every health headline. In this episode, I’m walking you through how to read a medical study, so a big percentage in the news never misleads you again.
Welcome to The Habit Healers Podcast. I’m Dr. Laurie Marbas, and this is week two of Mini Medical School, where we’re learning to understand medical research together. Today we’re in the Results section, the part of a paper most people skip, and the part that tells you the most.
I’ll show you why a drug that “cuts risk in half” may only change your personal risk…
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