PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bankhead, Charles
ED  - Miravitlles, Marc
TI  - Comorbidity Burden in Clinical Trials versus Clinical Practice
DP  - 2010 Jul 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 9--9
VI  - 10
IP  - 3
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/10/3/9.1.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/10/3/9.1.full
AB  - Epidemiological studies have documented a high prevalence of comorbid conditions among patients who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including hypertension, ischemic heart disease, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, and anxiety and depression [Barr RG et al. Am J Med 2009; Carrasco-Garrido P et al. BMC Pulm Med 2009; Finkelstein J et al. Int J COPD 2009]. The epidemiological data underscore the need to know whether clinical trial results have come from studies that adequately represent the comorbidities of COPD patients.