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@UofGSCMH Clinical Academic Nephrologist | NHS Kidney Dr | Data/R | ๐ŸŽน๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿฝโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿšด๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธโ›ท๐Ÿ•โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
Sep 13, 2022 โ€ข 7 tweets โ€ข 5 min read
1/7๐Ÿ”ฅATTENTION #TRIALISTS
#tweetorial on our #openaccess paper @BMJMedicine

๐Ÿ‘‰Trials of new medicines often include younger, healthier people than in general population
๐Ÿ‘‰There may be concern that older people with multiple medical conditions may be less able to complete #trials 2/7
๐Ÿ‘‰We looked at individual participant-level data from 92 trials of 20 medical conditions testing 17 different drug classes
๐Ÿ‘‰We assessed whether age, sex and number of medical conditions was associated with attrition (dropout) from these trials