Sentences with phrase «although similar studies»

Although similar studies haven't been conducted on other nuts, it's possible that a portion of their calories may not be absorbed either.

This is the first time these pathways have been studied in live mosquitoes with dengue virus, although similar studies have been conducted under controlled conditions using cells cultured in the lab.

One study has shown a 50 % decrease in SIDS in babies who are breastfed through infancy, and although no similar studies have found conclusive results for SUDC, some mamas don't want to take the chance and opt for extended breastfeeding in the hope that it will keep their little ones safe.

Not exact matches

Although the university provided the setting for some of the most enduring theology of the medieval and Reformation eras, and though the philosophy of religion in the modern period emerged under similar auspices, the recent development of departments of religious studies in secular universities represents a unique phenomenon that has profound implications for theology.

This strange mixture has so far defied attempts to reduce it to neat categories, although one of the better recent studies places Schweitzer among the death - of - God theologians, who exhibit similar kinds of eclecticism (see Schweitzer: Prophet of Radical Theology, by Jackson Lee Ice [Westminster, 1971]-RRB-.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

Most studies have revealed protective effects of breastfeeding on common infections in the first 8 to12 months of life.8, 27,29,30 One study, which distinguished between infectious diseases until and from the age of 6 months, revealed results similar to those from our study.24 Although the authors used exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months as the reference group, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months reduced the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections between the ages of 3 and 6 months but not between the ages of 6 and 12 months.24 We can not explain why breastfeeding duration was only associated with lower risks of lower respiratory tract infection from 7 to 12 months.

Although only 70 % of the women in our study completed a CES - D questionnaire, the fact that the scores were similar for the two groups suggests that maternal condition is not a major contributor to reduced infant weight gain.

In it, the agency noted that although these compounds are similar enough to natural forms of DHA and EPA to be «generally recognized as safe,» the FDA had concerns because «some studies have reported unexpected deaths among infants» fed these formulas.

A randomised trial in Brazil that compared a hospital based protocol (similar to the baby friendly hospital initiative) with another incorporating intensive home visits, however, found that while the protocol achieved high rates of exclusive breast feeding in hospital, the rates fell rapidly thereafter.27 These findings were confirmed in the UK by the millennium cohort study, 5 and the authors recommended that the baby friendly hospital initiative as a strategy for promotion of breast feeding should be reassessed and that other strategies are required to support mothers in the UK to breast feed for the recommended duration.5 27 Although combined antenatal education and postnatal support is ideal, this may be limited by economic or time resources.

Although result trends were similar in these two studies, more precise breast feeding data collection in the latter study may account for any significant result differences.

Although some SIDS experts and policy - makers endorse pacifier use recommendations that are similar to those of the AAP, 272,273 concerns about possible deleterious effects of pacifier use have prevented others from making a recommendation for pacifier use as a risk reduction strategy.274 Although several observational studies275, — , 277 have found a correlation between pacifiers and reduced breastfeeding duration, the results of well - designed randomized clinical trials indicated that pacifiers do not seem to cause shortened breastfeeding duration for term and preterm infants.278, 279 The authors of 1 study reported a small deleterious effect of early pacifier introduction (2 — 5 days after birth) on exclusive breastfeeding at 1 month of age and on overall breastfeeding duration (defined as any breastfeeding), but early pacifier use did not adversely affect exclusive breastfeeding duration.

Many women in politics point to similar stories, although studies have yet to prove differences in male and female bipartisan action in Congress.

Although the scope of this study is restricted to Europe, similar effects may apply to other regions where similar underlying processes are or have been occurring, the authors note.

Although previous studies of similar nanoparticles have found an effect of nanoparticle shape and size on antibody responses, such a trend was not seen at significant levels for the DENV2 - E vaccine.

Although production of PCBs ended 41 years ago, people in Anniston still have levels in their bodies similar to what people in Michigan had back in 1976, according to the new study.

Although the era Secord and his colleagues studied experienced a similar increase in temperatures (five degrees Celsius or more) as is predicted for us for the near future (four degrees C), he points out the ancient animals had tens of thousands of years to adapt to changing temperatures — rather than just centuries.

«Although we observed that short - term use of LDX was well tolerated and effective in several subjective and objective areas, long - term studies of menopausal women receiving LDX are needed, similar to those conducted for ADHD patients,» said Epperson.

The study, which compared each model's success in Caucasian women with those of Asian descent (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean and Vietnamese), also raised important questions about the effect of race on cancer development: When Caucasian and Asian patients with similar family histories of breast and ovarian cancer were compared, the Asian women had higher rates of genetic mutation, although the rates of these cancers for Asians have traditionally been lower.

Shea notes that although he and his colleagues have yet to finalize their measurements on how well their nanoparticles bind to various PLA2 molecules, their test - tube results suggest that they could have a similar high affinity for PLA2s as their previous nanoparticles had for melittin, the bee venom protein that stopped the toxin in animal studies.

However, «although people assume physical abuse is more harmful than other types of abuse, we found that they are associated with similar consequences,» says David Vachon, a McGill professor in the Department of Psychology and the study's first author.

Although the mechanisms of hormesis have yet to be determined, similar effects have been observed in glyphosate - treated plants in other studies.

Researchers expect similar increases in North America and Australia although these areas were not included in this study.

Although several small studies have found similar results, this large study of almost 800,000 babies and mothers expands the evidence by using a statistical method that also accounts for unmeasured or unobserved factors.

Although this study included only women, it is likely that men who have gastric bypass surgery experience similar changes in how their bodies metabolize alcohol.

The researchers say their findings can not necessarily be extrapolated to other countries, although it is likely that similar results might be found, as studies from the USA, Australia and Japan have reported increased suicide risk in adults diagnosed with cancer.

The idea is based in part on studies that show identical twins to have more similar levels of life satisfaction than non-identical twins, and suggests that although your level of happiness may occasionally be thrown off by major life events, it will always return to a set level within two years.

Although the researchers only studied Egypt, they say uprisings in countries such as Ukraine may have a similar effect.

Although the model system studied here used protein from a species of herpes virus — which is only transmitted between squirrel monkeys, without actually doing much harm to them — these monkey herpes viruses are structurally very similar to viruses causing Kaposi's sarcoma in humans.

Although the study was conducted throughout Europe, where residents of countries such as Greece and Italy are thought to have healthier diets to begin with, the researchers say that results would probably be similar if the analysis had been done in the U.S. «There is no reason to expect a different effect in the U.S. vs. Europe for a comparable level of consumption,» Paolo Boffetta, of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and lead researcher on the study, wrote in an e-mail to ScientificAmerican.com.

Although not significant statistically, the association has been seen in other similar studies, including a number of studies led by Michaud of Tufts.

Although similar surveys have been attempted with the Andromeda galaxy, our galaxy's nearest neighbor, «we can not yet study its dwarf galaxy companions to the same level of detail,» he says.

Although breast cancer was the initial focus and featured in the study published online today, the team has also conducted experiments with other types of solid tumors, with similar results.

Although we did observe positive effects on some aging traits, such as memory impairments and reduced red blood cell counts, our studies showed that similar drug effects are also seen in young mice, indicating that rapamycin did not influence these measures by slowing aging, but rather via other, aging - independent, mechanisms.»

Although the study explains some of the skills that patients with OCD lack, Moritz says further research is needed to find out to what extent improving such coping skills during childhood and adolescence through cognitive behavioural therapy or similar interventions may indeed improve a sufferer's life.

Although no one knows exactly how Wnt works, other studies have suggested that the signals may cause cells around an injury to revert to a state similar to that of stem cells, allowing them to be reprogrammed to grow back the missing part.

The findings were recently corroborated by a similar study by US scientists, although those experiments did not target activin B and did not demonstrate as great an effect, Dr Harrison said.

«Although most studies of bird plumage focus on dichromatism, evolutionary change has most often led to similar, rather than different, plumage in males and females,» the authors write.

Through studies of these bugs, whose bodies match the leaves the insects live on, researchers have found that although groups of the bug have evolved similar appearances, they achieved that mostly via different changes in their DNA.

«Although birds in this study were shown to compensate by switching to other seed types, the findings suggest that the capacity of grazed lands to support similar numbers of birds as ungrazed lands may be compromised,» according to the Vermont Center for Ecostudies» Rosalind Renfrew, an expert on grassland bird conservation who was not involved in the study.

«Although we didn't study other sports, it's reasonable to suppose that weight - bearing, high - impact, high - intensity exercise like tennis, badminton, basketball and handball will have similar effects to soccer.»

She added that these results from a national cohort study are likely to be similar in other populations, although Denmark itself had a lower twin rate than many other countries between 1995 and 2000.

These findings are generally consistent with those from recent systematic reviews, some of which also included trials of statins for secondary prevention.47,51 - 53 Similar to other meta - analyses of primary and secondary prevention trials, 54,55 this review found no association between use of statins and increased risk of muscle - related harms, although some observational studies and randomized rechallenge trials found statins associated with increased risk of myopathy or joint - related symptoms.56 - 58 The large HOPE - 3 trial found statins associated with increased risk of cataract surgery, an unanticipated finding.14 No other trial of statins for primary prevention evaluated risk of cataracts or cataract surgery.

Although the gene sequences from human and chimpanzee remain very similar, previous studies in tissues other than the brain have shown that gene expression varies widely.

«Although we first became aware of prions because they cause several bizarre neurological diseases, the discovery that something so awesomely similar happens in organisms as different as humans and yeast makes us suspect that there is a fundamental, common biochemical process at work here,» said study director Susan Lindquist, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago.

Although this limitation is present in other studies using similar artificial grammar - like nested sequences64, 104, the effects of length were typically not observed, possibly because the differences in duration in those studies were around 1 s compared to 3 s in the current experiment.

The researchers noted that although their study included a small number of patients, this response rate was similar to rates seen in studies for other treatments, such as MEK inhibitors.

We tried to analyze several studies done on this particular subject, the time frame needed to lose weight, health implications on restricting yourself with low carb or low fat diets, where although with similar effects on the slimming down side, they have different effects on the general health.

In Phinney's study, the large energy deficit ensured ketoadaptation; this study lacked that aspect, somewhat more similar to Vogt's, although unlike Vogt's, these participants weren't athletes which presumably makes ketoadaptation more difficult.

Yet, studies also suggest that quercetin has a mild stimulant effect on the central nervous system, similar to caffeine, although less potent.