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by mrob 137 days ago
The reduction in risk is 0.08 percentage points, not 0.08 percent. The "%" symbol always means "percent", not "percentage points". The 0.08 percentage point reduction is a 40% reduction.

EDIT: don't assume the causality
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baxtr 137 days ago
Maybe they wanted to say "down to" instead of "by"?
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