16. Mortality:
2 Year Mortality
What happened next? We followed patients out to
two years and low and behold. Fewer people died in the atenolol
treated group (9) as compared to the placebo group (21) (about
half as many). It was so obvious that when you piled up the death
certificates for the patients, one pile of death certificates
was twice as high as the other. It was 19 days to the first death
in the placebo group and 237 days to the first patient in the
atenolol treated group.
