Lack of females in drug dose trials leads to overmedicated women

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/uoc--lof081220.php

 

 

News Release 12-Aug-2020
University of California - Berkeley

 

 

Women are more likely than men to suffer adverse side effects of medications because drug dosages have historically been based on clinical trials conducted on men, suggests new research from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago.

Researchers analyzed data from several thousand medical journal articles and found clear evidence of a drug dose gender gap for 86 different medications approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), including antidepressants, cardiovascular and anti-seizure drugs and analgesics, among others.

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