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In summary, neither adherence to quotas in the composition of a study nor the irrational exclusion of a subgroup of people can be supported. Determining the number of women to be included in a trial reflect reasonable hypotheses about the relation of treatment efficacy sex, not global rules about the composition of study cohorts.
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J. Claude Bennett (1993) studied this question.
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