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Specific guide to this web site for:

1. Medical School
      Educators
      in Statistics

2. Medical Students

3. Science media writers

4. High School & College
     Statistic Teachers

Misadventures:

1. Harvard led study

2. JACC study
   (J. of Amer. Coll.
   Cardio.)

3. NEJM cath study

4. Amer. J. of Cardio.
    review of literature

5. ALLHAT
    controversy

6. Oat bran study

7. Pregnancy & Alcohol

8. Are Geminis really
    different?

9. Columbia 'Miracle' Study

Additional Topics:

Celebrex

Limitations of Meta-Analyses

Large Randomized Clinical Trials

Tale of Two Large
Trials

Meta-analyses Bearing False Gifts

Network meta-analyses

About the Author of this Website

Eric Roehm, M.D., F.A.C.C.

Dr. Roehm is board certified in cardiology. He went to medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas for four years. He then spent three years at the University of New Mexico program in Albuquerque, New Mexico in an internal medicine residency. He then did a fellowship in cardiac rehabilitation through Harvard Medical School- Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Mass. Gen. Hospital, and Mass Rehab Hospital for one year. This was followed by a cardiology fellowship at the University of Texas at San Antonio for two years. Since completing his training, he has been in private practice as a cardiologist for the past 20 years. He has a long standing interest in the proper interpretation of medical trials and studies.

Dr. Roehm has retired from private practice as of 2007.He currently is involved in multiple nonprofit projects in the medical field. This includes a focus on the proper application of statistics in the medical literature, developing patient education materials for patients with hypertension, and serving at a medical clinic in Austin, Texas which treats the medically indigent.

Dr. Roehm also has worked in Haiti following the earthquake as part of the medical relief efforts there. He subsequently developed hypertension treatment protocols for the treatment of elevated blood pressure when monitoring with laboratory blood work is not available. (www.HypertensionRxHaiti.com)

Dr. Roehm has also recently made a web site, www.NutritionHeart.com, that provides a low sodium diet video: www.nutritionheart.com/low-sodium-diet-video, a Mediterranean diet video: www.nutritionheart.com/video-mediterranean-diet, a fish omega-3 fat video: www.nutritionheart.com/video-fish-omega-3-fat, and a DASH diet video: www.nutritionheart.com/video-Dash-diet, There is also additional information including extensive background scientific information on the benefits of the Mediterranean diet: www.nutritionheart.com/scientific-background-mediterranean-diet, and information on Alcohol & Health in adults: www.nutritionheart.com/alcohol-and-the-heart, as well as special issues of alcohol and women: www.nutritionheart.com/women-alcohol.

The opinions voiced on this web site are those of the author, unless specified otherwise.

Disclosure:

The author has nothing to disclose, including any financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies. There is no outside funding source for this web site. This web site and the information on this site have been created by the author, unless specifically noted otherwise.

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