Search Tag: underrepresentation of women

Cardiology Management

Landmark-heart-failure-trials-under-represent-women

2019 10 Apr

A new analysis suggests that women are under-represented in landmark heart failure clinical trials. In the PARADIGM-HF trial, the use of sacubitril-valsartan reduced heart failure hospitalisations as well as cardiovascular death by 20% compared to enalapril. However, only 21% of the study participants were women. In the inclusion criteria for the...Read more