Norman Swan
speaker
15,786 appearances
142 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard 5d ago
Norman Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We need these trials good on you for opting in.
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But yeah, I think everyone has their fingers and toes crossed that there's going to be different outcomes in different trials.
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And we've also had Annette write in with respect to, again, another cholesterol story that we did on statins and basically headlines in the media that were saying that statins in over 70s reduce the risk of heart disease and dying from heart disease by 30%.
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And Norman and I kind of got into a bit of the nuance and said, oh, it's probably overstating a little bit.
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It was a bit more nuanced.
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But Annette writes, you both pointed out the reasons to be cautious about acting on the findings concerning the benefits of statins reported in a recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Women have a particular need for caution.
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The statistics given in the paper show that in the study group, women's absolute risk of cardiac events was significantly lower than that of men.
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And the difference between the statin and placebo groups was much smaller in women than in men.
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On my calculations, the number needed to treat to prevent one event was 25 for men and 124 for women.
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which casts a very different light on the results that the newspaper headlines would suggest.
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And I think that's just that whole story was really about applying some caution and actually critically analysing sometimes the studies that you might see the headlines around.
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Health Report · Why you should speed up your steps, even just in short bursts. · 11 Sep 2026
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Norman.
Yes.
If I had to guess.
I'd say that you're someone who counts your steps every day.
Am I right?
Do you carry it all the time though?
don't care.
So I do about
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