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Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Authors’ reply
BMJ 2009; 339 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b3043 (Published 28 July 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3043
- Simon Thompson, director1,
- Alan Scott, consultant vascular surgeon (retired)2
- 1MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge CB2 0SR
- 2Scott Research Unit, St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester PO19 4SE
- simon.thompson{at}mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk
Being a very large study, the randomised groups in the Multicentre Aneurysm Screening Study (MASS) were very well matched at baseline.1 As shown in table 1 of our paper,2 there were 155 aneurysm related deaths in the group invited to screening and 296 in the control group, a halving of the …
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