More Women Needed in Cardiology Clinical Trials

So few women participate in clinical trials that the best and safest ways to treat them remain unknown.

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“Medicine advances by studying new therapies to find out what works best in certain individuals. There is no value in studying drugs that are unlikely to be better than what is currently available, so when you participate in a phase 3 clinical trial, there’s a good chance you will benefit and little chance you will be harmed,” says Cleveland Clinic’s Steven Nissen, MD, a world leader in conducting cardiovascular drug trials.

If you are a woman with cardio­vascular disease (CVD), you should know that most drugs, devices or procedures used to treat your condition were tested primarily in men.

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