The PhysioNet open access database (PND) is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories of biosignal data and is widely used by researchers to develop, train, and validate algorithms. To contextualise the results of such algorithms, understanding the underlying demographic distribution of the data is crucial-specifically, the race, ethnicity, sex or gender, and age of study participants. We sought to understand the underlying reporting patterns and characteristics of the demographic data of the datasets available on PND.
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