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...summer to join a committee to draft the constitution. The U.S. believes that drawing the Sunnis into the political process is the key condition for defeating the insurgency. But even those Sunnis that entered the process have rejected the draft charter, citing several controversial clauses. Their main bone of contention is federalism: while Shiite and Kurdish parties favor strong regional governments with a high degree of autonomy, Sunnis fear this would lead inevitably to the dismemberment of Iraq...
...this study’s large subject pool allowed Scranton to discard many subjects who might have confounded the study’s results, including patients who had previously received prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering medication and those who had fractured a bone within their first month in the health care system...
Solomon said the “$64,000 question” raised by his findings is why post hoc clinical studies—which look at patients already receiving statins as part of a larger patient group—find no association between statins and the frequency of bone fractures, while observational studies—which administer statins and lipid-lowering drugs to patients—find such an association...
...analyses...are often small and only include a restricted population,” he wrote. These studies typically focus on “high-risk cardiac patients” who “may not be the group of patients likely to benefit from statins with respect to bone mineral density,” he added...
...control for the possibility that subjects who knew they were receiving some medication might change their lifestyle in ways that would improve their health and consequently strengthen their bones, Scranton gave some patients statins and others lipid-lowering therapy, so that “they would change their life too,” Scranton said. Scranton found that patients taking lipid-lowering therapy were 32 percent more likely to fracture a bone, so he concluded that statins must be accountable for the discrepancy...