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A pharmaceutical company is conducting clinical trials on a new drug designed to treat depression. The company claims that the drug will represent a major advance in antidepressant therapy based on the results of an initial clinical trial. In the trial, 70% of patients with depression who received the new drug reported a significant improvement in their symptoms.
Which of the following is an assumption required by the pharmaceutical company's claim?
A) The new drug does not cause any major side effects that could outweigh its potential benefits.
B) A majority of patients with depression who take traditional antidepressants improve significantly.
C) The patients who received the new drug were selected randomly from the overall population of patients with depression.
D) The initial clinical trial was designed in a way that minimized the placebo effect.
E) Patients who received the new drug were not also making positive lifestyle changes that could have helped improve their depression.
Which of the following is an assumption required by the pharmaceutical company's claim?
A) The new drug does not cause any major side effects that could outweigh its potential benefits.
B) A majority of patients with depression who take traditional antidepressants improve significantly.
C) The patients who received the new drug were selected randomly from the overall population of patients with depression.
D) The initial clinical trial was designed in a way that minimized the placebo effect.
E) Patients who received the new drug were not also making positive lifestyle changes that could have helped improve their depression.
24 Jul 2023, 21:00
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Apart from (A) and (E) all options are out of scope/irrelevant.
(E) Patients who received the new drug were not also making positive lifestyle changes that could have helped improve their depression.
What does the company claim?
It claims that drug will represent a MAJOR ADVANCE. This is where the assumption is, what if its not a MAJOR ADVANCE? What if there are other side effects? So in total, company assumes that side effects are not present so as to lead to NOT SO MAJOR ADVANCE. This is exactly what (A) states,
A) The new drug does not cause any major side effects that could outweigh its potential benefits.
As far as (E) is concerned, company is not assuming anything about LIFESTYLE CHANGES, it could assume about DIETARY CHANGES as well, CHANGE OF AMBIENCE etc. There are endless options which could have been assumed by company such that Company would not have been limited to assuming LIFESTYLE CHANGES only.
Option A is the answer.
Hope it helps.
(E) Patients who received the new drug were not also making positive lifestyle changes that could have helped improve their depression.
What does the company claim?
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It claims that drug will represent a MAJOR ADVANCE. This is where the assumption is, what if its not a MAJOR ADVANCE? What if there are other side effects? So in total, company assumes that side effects are not present so as to lead to NOT SO MAJOR ADVANCE. This is exactly what (A) states,
A) The new drug does not cause any major side effects that could outweigh its potential benefits.
As far as (E) is concerned, company is not assuming anything about LIFESTYLE CHANGES, it could assume about DIETARY CHANGES as well, CHANGE OF AMBIENCE etc. There are endless options which could have been assumed by company such that Company would not have been limited to assuming LIFESTYLE CHANGES only.
Option A is the answer.
Hope it helps.
31 Jul 2023, 17:06
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A pharmaceutical company is conducting clinical trials on a new drug designed to treat depression. The company claims that the drug will represent a major advance in antidepressant therapy based on the results of an initial clinical trial. In the trial, 70% of patients with depression who received the new drug reported a significant improvement in their symptoms.
Conclusion: The company claims that the drug will represent a major advance in antidepressant therapy based on the results of an initial clinical trial.
Which of the following is an assumption required by the pharmaceutical company's claim?
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IMO A
Conclusion: The company claims that the drug will represent a major advance in antidepressant therapy based on the results of an initial clinical trial.
Which of the following is an assumption required by the pharmaceutical company's claim?
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If the new drug will represent a major advance in antidepressant therapy based on the results of an initial clinical trial then it should not t cause any major side effects that could outweigh its potential benefits.
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We are not concerned with traditional antidepressants.
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We are not concerned with the selection of patients for the study.
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If the new drug is MAJOR advance in antidepressant therapy, then placebo effect should not have impacted the results.
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There are other ways to improve the results apart from positive lifestyle changes, e.g. dietary changes etc. that could have helped improve depression.
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IMO A
