Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials: Past, Present, Future
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Biomarkers in cardiovascular clinical trials: past, present, future.
BACKGROUND Cardiovascular (CV) clinical trials are instrumental in understanding treatment effects and offer insights into the natural progression of CV disease. Biomarkers are a critical component of patient selection, end point definition, and safety monitoring, and clinical trials provide a platform for the discovery and validation of new biomarkers that may augment the understanding of dise...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Chemistry
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0009-9147,1530-8561
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2011.165787