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Fig. 1 | BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

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From: Should statin guidelines consider patient preferences? Eliciting preferences of benefit and harm outcomes of statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in the sub-Saharan African and European contexts

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Heat maps indicating consistency of responses. The heat maps show the probability of being selected as most worrisome of each comparison for the 13 × 13 possible combinations of the outcomes. Each cell indicates the probability that the respondents selected the first comparator in a pair as most worrisome. The matrix of the probability is arranged from zero to one, which corresponds to yellow and orange colors, respectively. Except few randomly assorted colors, the visually smooth transition from yellow at the right lower corner to orange at the left upper corner of the maps indicates a small amount of measurement error and high internal consistency. The white patches indicate there were no actual responses corresponding to the pairs; note that this doesn’t mean non-response

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