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AB - Return to Table of Contents / Go to Authors’ Index OLDER PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE EXCLUDED FROM PARTICIPATION IN CLINICAL RESEARCH SOLELY ON THE BASIS OF AGE E R L C Vardy, T L Mwambingu, E M Scott Academic Unit of Molecular Vascular Medicine, Leeds Institute of Genetics Health and Therapeutics, University of Leeds Introduction In general, older people are under-represented in clinical research. Some of the reasons for this may be a perception that they would not want to take part, or that they would have difficulties reliably attending appointments with increasing infirmity. Methods We compared the attendance of two groups of healthy control subjects in research studies running concurrently in our department: older controls (OC) attending a study relating to Alzheimer’s disease and younger controls (YC) attending a study relating to Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Results Data was collected for consecutive appointments over a five month period. In the YC group (mean age 32.4yrs) 32 subjects agreed to participate and had appointments made. Of these only 53% actually attended. In the OC group (mean age 81.4 yrs), of 68 subjects who agreed to participate and had appointments made, 35 were men (51%) and 33 were women (49%). The 
TI - Law and Ethics
JF - Age and Ageing
DO - 10.1093/ageing/afn077
DA - 2008-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/law-and-ethics-MpXtpH6Ard
SP - ii50
EP - ii50
VL - 37
IS - suppl_2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -