The older the better: Are elderly study participants more non-representative? A cross-sectional analysis of clinical trial and observational study samples

BMJ Open

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Golomb, Beatrice A ^a,b   Chan, Virginia T ^a,c   Evans, Marcella A ^a,c   Koperski, Sabrina ^a   White, Halbert L ^b   Criqui, Michael H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENERGY; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84873206149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-000833     Document Type: Article

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