Clinical trials for COVID-19 should include sex as a variable
- 1 July 2020
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Society for Clinical Investigation in JCI Insight
- Vol. 130 (7), 3350-3352
- https://doi.org/10.1172/jci139306
Abstract
This Viewpoint calls on investigators that are developing and testing therapeutic and prophylactic approaches for COVID-19 to design studies that are inclusive of male-female differences.Keywords
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