Dr.GastroMayo said:The gap between trial results and real-world results is consistent and it is not fraud.
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.
fiona_VT said:The manufacturing argument is the underrated one.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Taking it to my next appointment.
Dr.GastroMayo said:The gap between trial results and real-world results is consistent and it is not fraud.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. I would add the less popular caveat: these trial populations under-represented several groups, older adults and the highest BMI categories among them. The results probably generalise, and "probably" should be stated as an assumption rather than dropped.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.
Worth separating that from the trial evidence, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.