Psychiatrist, Cognitive-behavioural therapist, Clinical epidemiologist, who does systematic reviews, runs randomized clinical trials, performs meta-epidemiological studies and develops smartphone apps.
Toshi Furukawa
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But that is how education goes. We don’t have as many RCTs of educational methods, do we?
💬 Editorial: Statin guidelines and patient preferences for #ASCVD prevention often misalign, supporting the need for clearer risk communication and shared decision-making in clinical practice.
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For primary prevention of stroke and heart attack
people often expect more of statins than they get
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Toshi Furukawa
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JAMA Internal Medicine
Some evidence of decreasing depression rates among adolescents from the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health. 60% of teens with depression reported receiving mental health treatment (31% taking meds) www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/d...
Dr. Eric Cadesky MD
It appears that regulatory agencies are pretty ignorant of predictive/diagnostic modeling. A very similar thing happened with the Japanese PMDA.
Thanks, Christian. Still get 403: Forbidden. Probably they do not allow access from outside the US.
📱 Could a smartphone app keep depression away — for nearly a year? A 3,280-person RCT says yes. CBT skills like behavioral activation & insomnia therapy cut the risk of major depression by up to 48% at 50 weeks. Prevention at scale is here. 🧵https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2026.10630
After 40 years of working as psychiatrist and researcher, I cannot answer this question.
