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sudopsuedotoday at 2:20 AM1 replyview on HN

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30557212/

About 1 in 50 patients may experience a major cardiac event (or death) during the course of ECT


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timrtoday at 5:45 AM

This isn't responsive to the parent's question, in a way that ironically underscores the point: you can tell me that "1 in 50 patients experience X", but that's meaningless, unless I know what X is in the selected population at baseline.

I don't mean to pick on you. This problem is widespread in academic research.