Treatment group - COPD sufferers?25 Jul 2020 11:01
Just a thought regarding the probability of positive COPD results, and this is by no means scientific...
We know that in this phase 2 patients from the treatment group and placebo group were matched as closely as possible, meaning that there were the same number of co morbidities for each. We also know that there were more diabetes and cardiovascular related issues in the control group...
Now there are a number of risk factors that will have been included but it is likely that those with a severe lung condition will have made up a significant fraction. And that also means that it is likely there were far more COPD and asthma sufferers in the treatment group.
Seeing as the results were so conclusive and the likelihood is that the treatment group contained a decent number of COPD and lung related illnesses, this does give me optimism that the next set of results could be just as striking.