Women Continue to Be Underrepresented in Medical Device Trials

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Women Continue to Be Underrepresented in Medical Device Trials

Only about one-third of participants in trials evaluating medical devices were women, a new systematic review of 195 trials, the majority of which were conducted between 2013 and 2022, found. The researchers found no increase in the percentage of women included as participants over time, continuing a decades-long trend of women being underrepresented in clinical trials for devices.