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NNT: Number Needed to Treat or No Need to Think?

NNT: Number Needed to Treat or No Need to Think?

In this edition of #Nephstats, we look at Number Needed to Treat (NNT), a controversial topic creates ripples and roars on social media amongst stat savvy physicians, epidemiologists and biostatisticians. This seems like such a simple and easy number to make sense of a trial’s importance - what could be controversial or wrong about it?

Can Finerenone Fiddle the Forgotten A of the RAAS String?

Can Finerenone Fiddle the Forgotten A of the RAAS String?

This week, we will discuss whether the time has come to add mineralocorticoid antagonism to the RAS armamentarium. Can we surmount the hyperkalemia which is the commonest problem with these drugs? Let’s find out with FIDELIO.