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. 2021 Jun 15;143(24):2409-2411.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.050034. Epub 2021 Jun 14.

Diverse Racial/Ethnic Group Underreporting and Underrepresentation in High-Impact Cholesterol Treatment Trials

Ashish Sarraju  1 , Areli Valencia  2 , Joshua W Knowles  1   3 , David J Maron  1   4 , Fatima Rodriguez  1
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Diverse Racial/Ethnic Group Underreporting and Underrepresentation in High-Impact Cholesterol Treatment Trials

Ashish Sarraju et al. Circulation. .
No abstract available

Keywords: cholesterol; clinical trial; primary prevention; secondary prevention.

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Reporting and representation of racial/ethnic minority participants in randomized trials cited in the 2018 US Multi-society Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol. Panel A: Percentage of cited trials reporting specific participant-level race/ethnicity data, Panel B: Racial/ethnic representation among pooled trial participants compared to the US population per 2010 and 2019 US Census estimates. *P-value <0.001 for trial population versus 2010 and 2019 Census data.
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