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Therefore, representativeness of females in PD trials indirectly determines the external validity of the clinical research in this field.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title><jats:p>To estimate the representativeness of female in infusion therapy trials for advanced PD.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>PubMed and EMBASE databases were searched (1980 to September 2023), along with congress abstracts, to identify controlled clinical trials and large non\u2010controlled studies on infusion therapies in PD enrolling &gt;100 patients. Random\u2010effect meta\u2010analysis was conducted to estimate mean pooled prevalence of females included in the studies. Subgroup analyses were conducted accordingly to study design and intervention.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>We included 15 studies (six studies on levodopa\u2010carbidopa intestinal gel, six on subcutaneous levodopa, two on subcutaneous apomorphine, and one on levodopa\u2010carbidopa\u2010entacapone intestinal gel). Sex was not a randomisation stratification factor in any of these studies. Only one study explored differences in the outcome estimated according to sex. Overall, the proportion of female included was 38% (95% CI:33%\u201343%; <jats:italic>I<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\u2009=\u200974%), without differences between studies assessing different type of interventions (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.72) or between study design (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.35). 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