The tragic history of the only diet pill that worked

Re:The tragic history of the only diet pill that worked by owenversteeg on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @05:55PM (#26322299)

Interesting, that sent me down a bit of a Wikipedia rabbit hole, which took me to this interesting quote: "there is no antidote or remedy for DNP once taken. In consequence, DNP has a high mortality rate — of those who presented at hospital between 2007 and 2019 with a history of having taken DNP, 18% died. This puts DNP close to cyanide in terms of its toxicity."

So that means that only a fifth or so of people who went to the hospital after taking cyanide died! Surprisingly low...

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Re:The tragic history of the only diet pill that worked by billh on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @08:19PM (#26323517)

There are treatments for cyanide poisoning. Hydroxocobalamin can be used to react cyanide and form cyanocobalamin (vitamin B-12) which is nontoxic and renally excreted. The trick is to identify the cyanide poisoning quickly enough.

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Re:The tragic history of the only diet pill that worked by jobigoud on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:57AM (#26326161)

Isn't there a survivorship bias here? It doesn't count all the people that died before getting to the hospital.

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