title: Lessons learned from large cardiovascular trials.
abstract: Controlled clinical trial methodology includes unbiased data gathering, subject to statistical analysis, eliminating subjective and environmental influences on the results. These studies compare treatments in patients minimizing or equalizing all variables except the intervention (mostly a drug) under evaluation. The scope of this short review is to present how much recent clinical trials have improved our understanding and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
authors.affiliation: Split University School of Medicine, Croatia.
authors.forename: Zvonko
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Rumboldt
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006801:Humans