Sentence examples for reduction in favour of from inspiring English sources
Future trials are unlikely to show a 15% relative risk reduction in favour of restrictive or liberal strategies as the boundary for futility was crossed (fig 10).
Any reduction in favour of stabilisation exercises was potentially meaningless, with mean change scores for pain (7.93, 6.10 and 6.39) and disability (3.61, 2.31 and 3.92) falling well below these MCID levels.
The recurrence rate over 6 months was 9% in the LMWH group compared with 17% in the oral anticoagulant group, a 52% (P=0.002) reduction in favour of LMWH.
Our trial sequential analysis models showed that, even with a generous hypothetical 10% relative risk reduction in favour of albumin given to RASP, 107 our principal finding of no mortality benefit would remain unchanged (online supplement).
Moreover, the difference in final HbA1c levels was similar to that reported in a recent meta-analysis by Monami et al. [ 17] who showed a −0.3% reduction in favour of the CSII group.
32 34 Pooling of data from all four studies also showed a greater magnitude of reductions in favour of the intervention: systolic −4.8 mm Hg (−7.0 to −2.7) 32 34 36 37 and diastolic −3.5 mm Hg (−4.5 to −2.5).
This corresponds to a relative risk reduction of 5.9% (from a relative risk reduction of 19% in favour of antidepressants to a relative risk increase of 8%).
There was a trend in mean volume reduction and a statistically significant difference between the 2 groups in the percentage reduction in volume in favour of the combined treatment.
We found a 20% relative risk reduction for retinopathy in favour of intensive glycaemic control.
This corresponds to a relative risk increase of 1.0% (from a relative risk reduction of 17% in favour of antidepressants to a relative risk increase of 25%).
The heterogeneity was due to two outlying studies [ 37, 41] which reported the highest reduction in HbA1c in favour of the DSME of 1.0 percentage points [ 41] and the highest increase of 0.7 percentage points [ 37].
