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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 MI 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

Advocate meta-analyses

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. He subsequently spent three years in an internal medicine residency at the University of New Mexico program in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This was followed by a fellowship in cardiac rehabilitation through Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Mass. Gen. Hospital, and Mass Rehab Hospital. He then completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of Texas at San Antonio. 

Following the completion of his training, Dr. Roehm was in practice as a cardiologist for over 20 years including care of patients presenting with hypertension, heart attack, and cardiac arrest, as well as the performance of balloon angioplasty and the placement of stents into diseased arteries of the heart.

Dr. Roehm has a long standing interest and focus on the proper interpretation of medical trials and medical studies and created this web site in 2005.  Dr. Roehm retired from private practice as of 2007 .He currently is involved in multiple nonprofit projects in the medical field. This includes 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. 

He has created several nonprofit websites:

www.HypertensionRxHaiti.com  This website includes blood pressure treatment protocols for treating the indigent displaced Haitian patient population. The protocols were developed for use by the volunteer health organizations with limited resources serving in Haiti for the treatment patients with elevated blood pressure when no laboratory blood work is available. Cost effective therapy with a total cost of 10¢/day for 3 drugs is described..

www.NutritionHeart.com is a nonprofit website recently created that provides nutritional information for the hypertensive patient as well as for individuals at risk for cardiovascular disease.
    There are unique illustrated videos:
         -a low sodium diet video:   NutritionHeart.com/Low-Sodium-Diet-Video,
    `    -the Mediterranean diet video: NutritionHeart.com/Video-Mediterranean-Diet
         -the DASH diet video for the treatment of elevated blood pressure: NutritionHeart.com/Video-DASH-Diet,
         -fish omega-3 fat video:  NutritionHeart.com/Video-Fish-Omega-3-fat
Additional topics such as Alcohol and the Heart  Alcohol-and-the-Heart  
and Exercise and the Heart: Exercise-and-Heart are also covered.
There is also extensive written scientific information on many topics including the Mediterranean diet. 
   
                                                                
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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