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Women are not included in clinical trials for stroke treatments. This could hinder efforts to improve care.
Around 14 million people suffer from strokes each year worldwide. About 48 percent of these cases are women. However, women are not represented in clinical trials that test new treatments.
Cheryl Carcel, from the George Institute for Global Health in Australia, and her colleagues analysed 281 stroke analyses from around the globe each involving at least
