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Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022) by onco on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:43PM (#37500116)
Ehh. Your experience is similarly anecdotal. You ignore that there is a placebo effect, blood pressure is a surrogate marker for cardiac events, and drugs can have adverse effects.

It’s best to look at all cause mortality in your example. Many studies have looked at that endpoint if you are curious.

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Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022) by scarface_74 on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:53PM (#37500233)
It’s “anecdotal” that I can measure with a machine that gives a number and that I track over a period time?

It’s not like I said “I feel better” when taking it. So my blood pressure just magically comes down after I’m taking it?

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Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022) by MockObject on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @03:54PM (#37500939)
What did you think "anecdote" means? Why wouldn't your individual report of your meter measurements count? You haven't shown us the data, shown that you've controlled for confounding factors, or anything.

You posted an anecdote.

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Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022) by scarface_74 on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @04:02PM (#37501031)
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.HYP.00001036...
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Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022) by bee_rider on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:41PM (#37502654)
I mean it is technically anecdotal evidence; it is just a story about you and wasn’t collected in any systemic way, we have no way to abstract it.

But there’s also lots of clinically collected evidence behind blood pressure medicine, right? I don’t see why anyone would have reason to doubt you.

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