{"id":45018,"date":"2019-07-05T16:05:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T15:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=45018"},"modified":"2019-07-12T16:43:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:43:31","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-composite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/07\/05\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-composite\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Composite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32935\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a>Ideally, when studying the effects of an intervention one wants to measure the final outcome or outcomes. For example, the real endpoints of treating hypertension are the incidences of its long-term complications, such as heart attacks and heart failure, strokes, and renal impairment. However, it is easier and quicker to measure the blood pressure as a surrogate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following my exploration of biomarkers, their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/06\/07\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-biomarkers\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">uses<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/06\/14\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-biomarkers-advantages-and-disadvantages\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">advantages and disadvantages<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the few that predict <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/06\/21\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-biomarkers-for-predicting-adverse-drug-reactions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">adverse drug reactions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/06\/28\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-biomarkers-classifications\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">classifications<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, I asked whether we should measure more than one outcome in a trial. What about composite outcomes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The word \u201ccomposite\u201d has composite origins. It starts with the IndoEuropean root APO, whose verbal meanings are to reach or extend, giving the adverbs off or away. The Greek adverbial derivative \u1f00\u03c0\u03cc was highly versatile, with meanings related to place, time, or cause. It primarily meant away from or far from a place, but also alien from (e.g. one\u2019s heart), off from (referring to something that had been put on), derived from, instead of, after (a specified time), sprung from, made from (e.g. some material), or by the agency of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several of these meanings are reflected in English words that begin apo-; the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oxford English Dictionary<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> lists about 100 primary forms. They include, to pick just the (often obsolete) medical ones: apocathartic; apoclasm (the breaking off of any part of the body); apocrine; apocristic (an astringent medicine); apodacrytic (stimulating tear production); <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19165853\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">apoenzyme;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0apolepsy (defined in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Phillips&#8217;s New World of Words<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 1706, as &#8220;a Stoppage in the Course of the Blood or Animal Spirits&#8221;); apomel (a medicine prepared with honey and vinegar); <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/29546602\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">apomorphine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; aponeurosis; apophlegmatism (the action of purging phlegm from the head or a medicine that does so); apophysis; apoplexy; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2017\/01\/13\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-apoptosis\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">apoptosis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; aporrhoea (which Sir Thomas Browne, in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pseudodoxia Epidemica<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 1646, described as &#8220;emanations from bodies&#8221;); apositic (tending to reduce the appetite); aposteme or apostume (a deep-seated abscess); <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/29145179\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">apotemnophilia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (a morbid desire to amputate a healthy part of one&#8217;s body, e.g. a limb; also erotic attraction to amputees); <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/01\/29\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-apothecaries\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">apothecary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; apotherapy (a nonce word that appears only in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gargantua and Pantagruel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Rabelais), translated from \u201capotherapie\u201d by Thomas Urquhart and meaning \u201ca [method of] making the body healthful by exercise\u201d); apothesis (the setting of a fractured or dislocated limb); and apozem (a pharmaceutical decoction or infusion).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-45025 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/07\/aronson_composite_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/07\/aronson_composite_1.png 640w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/07\/aronson_composite_1-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Surprisingly, the dictionary does not list \u201capolipoprotein\u201d, which dates at least from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/4958033\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1965<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or, in an earlier form, apoprotein, from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/13846349\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1959<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It also pays no attention to a range of other medical words, from apocamnosis (intense and easily induced fatigue) and apocarteresis (suicide by persistent refusal of food) to apozymase (a zymase apoenzyme).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Latin equivalent of apo- was ab-, which forms hundreds of words listed in the <em>OED<\/em>, from abacinate (to blind by placing red-hot irons or reflective metal plates in front of the eyes) to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/3787261\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">abzyme<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (a catalytic antibody).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next consider the IndoEuropean root SEI, to leave, delay, or settle down, which gives only two Latin words, sinere, to leave alone or allow, and sil\u0113re, to be silent. Add apo- to sinere, giving aposinere. Now shorten it to ponere, a Latin verb meaning to place, lay down, plant, expend, apply, bring to bear, ordain, and depict, among several other related meanings. The past participle of ponere, positum, gives us pose and position, and by the addition of almost any prefix you can think of, sometimes more than one, English is enriched by a wide range of useful words: antipose, appose (prefix ab, away from), circumpose, contrapose and counterpose, depose, dispose, expose, extrapose, impose, indispose, interpose, juxtapose, oppose (prefix ob, towards), overexpose, postpose, predispose, prepose, presuppose, propose, purpose, repose, subimpose, superpose, suppose (prefix sub, under), sympose, transpose, and of course compose (prefix cum, with). Most of these have further derivatives, such as exposition and repository. By adding other prefixes, compose also gives decompose, discompose, forecompose, photocompose, precompose, and recompose. And by inflection we get composable, composer, composition, compositor, composure, and, of course, composite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next week, composite outcomes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong>\u00a0is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford\u2019s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong>\u00a0None declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideally, when studying the effects of an intervention one wants to measure the final outcome or outcomes. 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