Wednesday, 29 December 2021

Cardiology - NNT visualization

NNT - Number needed to treat

explanation here - https://www.thennt.com/thennt-explained/

ref for data - https://www.thennt.com/home-nnt/

The NNT data available on thennt.com for cardiology speciality, visualized on logarithmic scale to give insight about various interventions. No bar drawn in case of none helped by the drug in given scenario based on available evidence. Purpose for drawing the visualizations was to understand the realistic range/expectation of effects from drugs. 


Insights:

- 18 out of 48 have no effect.

- 3 have NNT 5 of less

- 6 have NNT 6 to 10

- 12 have NNT 11 to 50

- 6 have NNT 51-100

- 4 have NNT above 101

- 1 have NNT above 1500 i.e. Aspirin to prevent first heart attack or stroke.



fig 1 - image




fig 2 - Original image


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