Saturday, March 26, 2011

Table 2: Statistics on Statins and Other Major Health Issues

Counts of the number of reviews where phrases associated with
various symptoms related to major health issues appeared, besides
muscle problems, for 8400 statin and 8400 non-statin drug reviews,
along with the associated p-value, indicating the likelihood that this
distribution could have occurred by chance.







































Side EffectStatin ReviewsNon-Statin Reviews P-value
Rhabdomyolysis 31 0 0.02177
Liver Damage 326 133 0.00285
Diabetes 185 62 0.00565
ALS 71 7 0.00819
Heart Failure 36 8 0.04473
Kidney Failure 26 4 0.05145
Arthritis 245 120 0.01117
Memory Problems 545 353 0.01118
Parkinson's Disease 53 3 0.01135
Neuropathy 133 73 0.04333
Dementia 41 13 0.05598

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