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statins achieved goal

Spanish translation: los pacientes. ..alcanzaron el objetivo

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English term or phrase:statins achieved goal
Spanish translation:los pacientes. ..alcanzaron el objetivo

21:41 Nov 27, 2014
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2014-12-01 11:54:10 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)


English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Medical: Pharmaceuticals / clinical trial
English term or phrase: statins achieved goal
Context:

42% of patients with very high baseline LDL-C levels (~190 mg/dL [~4.9 mmol/L]) and who could not tolerate statins achieved goal* with Product X (compared with 4% for ezetimibe 10 mg) (P
Maria Iglesia Ramos
Spain
los pacientes. ..alcanzaron el objetivo
Explanation:
The statins didn't achieve anything.
The patients (who couldn't tolerate statins) achieved goal.
The sentence is confusing, hence why.
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MiguelP
Spain
Local time: 03:11
Grading comment
great
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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4 -1los pacientes. ..alcanzaron el objetivo
MiguelP


  

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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
los pacientes. ..alcanzaron el objetivo


Explanation:
The statins didn't achieve anything.
The patients (who couldn't tolerate statins) achieved goal.
The sentence is confusing, hence why.


MiguelP
Spain
Local time: 03:11
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Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
great

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  M. C. Filgueira: No me parece correcto decir que "los pacientes alcanzaron el objetivo" (en todo caso, los q lo alcanzaron fueron los médicos que administraron X). Para decir lo mismo en ES hay que cambiar la frase; Saludos cordiales.
7 days
  -> No estoy de acuerdo. La frase es "42% of the patients (....) achieved goal", refiriéndose claramente a los pacientes. Ten en cuenta que objetivo también puede referirse a un resultado cuantitativo fijado de antemano, como un descenso en sus niveles de LDL
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