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To the Editor: Winston Churchill's tribute to the Royal Air Force in the House of Commons ("Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few") could be paraphrased to apply to the Lifestyle Heart Trial ("Rarely have so many conclusions been based on so few subjects"), as discussed in the recent correspondence on low-fat diets (Jan. 8 issue).¹ In this study, 94 patients were randomly assigned to the intervention group (53 patients) or the control group (43 patients).² Only 28 intervention and 20 control patients agreed to participate. One control patient and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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N Engl J Med 1998; 338:127-129, Jan 8, 1998. Correspondence

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