Sentences with phrase «duration of use among»

Duration of use among cancer patients was 2.8 years, only a little over a month longer than for the controls.

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Findings from this study suggest that the decreases in breastfeeding duration associated with pacifier use may be a consequence of less frequent breastfeeding among women who introduce pacifiers to their infants.

Several lines of evidence suggest that nicotine use (a) enhances the reinforcing effects of alcohol use, especially among men; (b) increases the duration of a drinking episode; and (c) leads to higher levels of cravings for both alcohol and cigarettes when co-used with alcohol.

Another study of 4,175 individuals between 11 and 17 years of age is the first to document reciprocal effects for major depression and short sleep duration among adolescents using prospective data.

Aspirin use was associated with a 47 % reduced risk of cervical cancer among frequent users — those who used aspirin seven or more times a week, regardless of duration — and 41 % reduced risk among long - term frequent users — those with five or more years of frequent use.

In the meantime, it cautions parents who use them in that age group to, among other things, carefully follow dosing directions, only use measuring spoons or cups that come with or are specifically designed to be used with the drugs, and remember that the drugs, at best, temporarily mask symptoms of but neither cure nor shorten the duration of colds or coughs.

Greater reductions of depression, anxiety and stress, and increased life satisfaction and sleep duration among individuals using Gamblers Anonymous combined with stress management intervention (includes education on diet and exercise, stress coping methods, relaxation breathing and progressive muscle relaxation).

«There are no contemporary data that might explain our finding that the risk was sustained among past users of [HRT] or that the risk seemed to increase with duration of use,» writes Dr. Viktor Oskarsson, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, with coauthors.

«Next, we need to understand more precisely what the optimal timing, dose and duration of NSAID use should be among patients with KRAS wild - type tumors.

Among children undergoing mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure, the use of a nurse - implemented, goaldirected sedation protocol compared with usual care did not reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation, according to a study appearing in JAMA.

The recent increase in cases of whooping cough among teenagers in the US suggests that the protection conferred by the acellular Bordetella pertussis vaccine (aP) that became standard in the mid 1990s is of shorter duration than that conferred by the whole - bacteria formulation (wP) used since the 1950s.

Abstract: We aimed to analyze the risk of non-cancer mortality according to duration of antipsychotic use and to compare the risk associated with polypharmacy and monotherapy among community - dwellers with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

In a review article of 107 published research studies designed to evaluate changes in weight among adults using low - carbohydrate diets in the outpatient setting, Bravata (8) found that weight loss while using low - carbohydrate diets was principally associated with decreased caloric intake and increased diet duration, but not with reduced carbohydrate content.

First, to address aim 1, descriptive statistics were used to examine the number, duration, forms, and frequency of interactions, and positive and negative friendship qualities with friends with and without CF. Mean differences in number of friendships with peers with versus without CF for the full sample were examined with paired - samples t - tests; paired - samples t - tests examining the remaining friendship indices (duration, interactions, and quality) were conducted among those participants who endorsed the presence of both types of friendships.

Structural Relationships Among Children's Duration of Media Use, Behavior Problems, and School Adjustment.