March 30th, 2011
Many Elderly Patients Excluded from Heart Failure Trials
Larry Husten, PHD
Despite the large and growing burden of heart failure in the elderly population, older people are often excluded from heart failure clinical trials. In a paper in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Antonio Cherubini and colleagues examined 251 heart failure trials and found that a quarter of the trials excluded patients by an arbitrary upper […]
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