Anyone!

 

This concept really confuses me.. I ll try to explain..

ARR= (event rate in control group)-(event rate in Study group)
but it sound same as Absolute risk

Number need to treat= 1/ARR which gives the Number of pt to be treated to reduce occurrence of One case

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RRR is % by which the drug reduces incidence in those on treatment compared to control group:
i.e,

RRR= (risk in control -risk in treatment)/(risk in control)

 

Wow, thanks!
Also, (just to get a better concept, pardon my stupidity), when we say 'treatment group and 'control group'. Is it the same as saying 'exposed' and 'non-exposed' respectively?

 

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They are different ...

Treatment grp and control group .. Both groups are similar in terms of having certain disease and one group recieves an intervention like medication or life style modification while other doesn't ...eg, two groups of Obese subjects: one group given sinistermine while placebo to other.. Used usually in clinical trials where the Intervention is tested for its efficacy

While

Exposed and non-exposed groups ... both groups are comparable but one has certain kind of exopsure eg, group smoker with another group of non-smokers but are comparable in terms of age, sex, race etc... more so in observational study like Cohort study where the Risk of developing a disease wrt certain exposure is studied.