Drug Trials Often Do not Include Overweight People — VOA Learning English
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More than 40 percent of American adults are considered obese, or medically overweight. But the medications many of these individuals take are rarely tested in bigger bodies.
Obese people are currently not required to be included in drug studies. Often, they are purposefully left out.
This is a problem because the amount of drugs an obese person should take to be safe is unknown, says Christina Chow. She is a researcher who has sought to bring attention to the need to include obese people in drug development and testing. “There’s no real emphasis for them to be studied at all,” Chow told The Associated Press.
Medications can work differently in people who are obese, but exactly how and at what…
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