The differences in weight gain between those who do and don't exercise regularly are likely to become even more pronounced as
the study participants get older, says Tim Church, MD, of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in Baton Rouge, La..
Study participants got most of their gluten from pastas, cereals, pizza, muffins, pretzels, and bread, and averaged between 6 and 7 grams a day, overall.
The importance of this process was seen in a recent study published in JAMA Neurology, which found that when
study participants got less sleep, there were visible signs of it in their brains.
Not exact matches
The
study's authors had 161
participants (who were almost exactly split between men and women) first read a passage in their normal voices to
get baseline measures of their voices for things like loudness and pitch.
After dosing
study subjects with approximately the amount of tryptophan you'd
get from a turkey dinner, the researchers paired up
participants and asked them to play a simple game involving dividing a small pot of money.
PsyBlog explains the research on the subject: «In the
study, one group of
participants were allowed to
get a full nights» sleep, while another had to stay up all night.
One recent
study found, for instance, that
participants guessed they'd need to ask ten people to borrow their cell phone for a short call to
get three to say yes.
The series of
studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some
participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or
participants primed for a meeker, go along,
get along approach.
The
study asks
participants of several different demographics about what they perceive to be pros, cons, motivations and possible effects of living together before
getting married.
In controlled drug
studies, some
study participants receive the drug under testing; others
get a placebo, which is like a sugar pill that has none of the drug being texted.
But spending that much time off your feet causes significant muscle atrophy and bone loss, so
participants must
get checked six months after the
study ends and again after a year.
The company plans in October to conduct a separate test specifically to
study the seasonal flu vaccine's effectiveness among 480 elderly
participants (a demographic often encouraged to
get seasonal flu shots), and Phase III efficacy trials across a larger set of demographics are scheduled to begin early next year.
Waber and her colleagues at hospitals in five other cities screened thousands of children in order to
get a sample that was representative of the diverse demographics of the U.S.
Study participants could not have behavioral or cognitive abnormalities or any risk of developing a mental or neurological disorder.
Marshall
got the idea for the
study after noticing that a sizable portion of the bipolar disorder patients who had volunteered for the
study at U-M discussed problematic childhoods in the questionnaires that all
participants fill out.
The varying doses, as well as the placebo
participants took, were all packaged the same so neither they or the investigators knew which dose, if any, they were
getting until the
study was complete.
Then there's the West Palm Beach symposium, held to recruit
participants for a
study testing what happens when aging people
get infusions of plasma (the fluid part of blood packed with signaling proteins and other molecules but no red or white cells) from young people who've taken a drug meant to activate their immune system.
Participants also
get to hear firsthand from faculty who have sat on K - award
study sections and reviewed many K - award proposals.
After
getting the tapes translated into formats that modern computers can read, Ramsden and his colleagues discovered what had been hidden for nearly half a century: records on 9,423
study participants, ages 20 to 97, all living in state mental hospitals or a nursing home.
For the
study, researchers gave all doses of vitamin D monthly rather than daily to help ensure that all
participants were
getting the correct doses.
The prisoner's dilemma game (see box 1) is frequently used in social
studies to
get participants to experience the most effective strategy when attempting to collaborate with an unknown person.
Studies of infertility have tended to recruit research
participants from medical settings such as general practice, so our population - based survey sample provides a rare insight into those people who, despite having failed to
get pregnant after a year of trying, did not seek help from health services.
But this «handholding,» as one
study participant described it, only hurt the students once they
got to college.
We
get qualified
study participants from San Diego, California to try new and exciting treatments that can help curb binge drinking and alcohol cravings.
Beyond the information that
study participants can
get back through 23andMe, the most important aspect of the new service is that it makes genetic research accessible and relatively cheap for scientists, says Hariri.
Study participants will
get the vaccine every three weeks for the first three months, then a dose every eight weeks until they have received five additional doses or until the disease recurs.
In connection to the physical expansion, the bioinformatics platform will also launch a mentor program next year where the
participants will
get a senior bioinformatician as a personal advisor for up to two years of their PhD
studies.
New
study: 7 of 11 trial
participants who
got two - drug combination chemo plus intermediate dose of engineered T cells went into complete remission
Because
participants in such
studies are not «blinded» — they know if they are
getting treatment or not — they are likely to be influenced by the placebo effect and other forms of expectancy bias.
A new
study examining
participants» relationship to alcohol after a month without drinking found that these individuals had fewer drinks per day,
got drunk less often, and found it easier to refuse drinks six months after abstaining for a month.
In a
study of almost 35,000 male health professionals aged 40 - 75,
participants who consumed the highest amounts of whole grain were 23 % less likely to
get gum disease than those who stayed away from whole grains.
In the
study,
participants were randomly chosen to
get a placebo or 4,000 IU / day of vitamin D supplements for 6 months as part of their normal treatment.
In a
study published in Psychological Science,
participants who were asked to recall a time they felt grateful, then choose between
getting a smaller monetary reward soon or a bigger one later, were more willing to wait for the bigger payout than those who didn't think thankful thoughts.
In a recent
study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers examined
participants» brains in an MRI scan during a craving and found that paying attention to a goal, such as
getting in shape, activates the prefrontal cortex — a part of the brain that can inhibit the reward region.
Consider a 2004
study in which
participants went from
getting eight hours of sleep to five hours of sleep.
To
get a better big - picture idea, Smith and his colleagues re-analyzed data from 45 of these
studies, with a total of 11,747
participants — a mix of undergraduate and medical students, out - of - school adults, and psychiatric patients.
One
study documented
participants who
got 120 minutes of moderate intensity exercise every week did see improvements in the volume of their brain.
In a
study published in the Surgical Neurology International medical journal in 2006, 80 % of the
participants were able to reduce their pain levels by taking fish oil and 60 % were able to
get off of NSAIDs.
The current
study examines
participants who not merely avoided
getting diabetes, but also managed to revert back to normal glucose function sometime during the
study.
However, once you
get through the transition, your body can quickly adapt and learn to function just as well only eating a few times a day: This
study explains that in
participants after 48 - hours of fasting,» cognitive performance, activity, sleep, and mood are not adversely affected in healthy humans by two days of calorie - deprivation.»
It turns out the
participants were informed about the results of their muscle strength; and so, often tried to improve it by training before the next exam for the
study — especially the men, who
got so competitive their muscle mass went up with age, which shows that the loss of muscle mass with age is not inevitable; you just have to put in some effort.
At the end of the
study, 59 % of the
participants stated that they had
gotten completely off their NSAIDs, while 88 % said they would continue taking omega - 3 supplements.
A small
study involving 10 overweight individuals found that by
getting more sleep by going to bed earlier and
getting out of bed later,
participants experienced a 62 percent reduction in their desire for sweet and salty foods.
However, when researchers try to distinguish cruciferous vegetables from other foods in the diet, it can be challenging to
get clear results because
study participants may have trouble remembering precisely what they ate.
In an RCT
participants in the
study (sometimes also called subjects) are randomly assigned to the treatment (
getting the drug) or the placebo control group (
get a sugar pill which isn't the drug).
Some
studies have found, for example, that
participants who weren't
getting enough fatty acids developed visible skin abnormalities.
No matter who
got the shocks — the computer told the decider who would
get the shocks — the decider always
got the money -LSB-...] The
study's
participants did not like the pain of receiving a shock, because they were willing to make about $ 0.30 less money per shock on average to receive fewer of them.
Twenty years after students participated in the program, John Holbein, a researcher at Princeton and the new
study's author, matched Fast Track
participants — now adults — to state voter files and found that those in the intervention group voted at a rate 11 to 14 percentage points higher than their peers in the control group, a significant boost considering that
get - out - the - vote programs typically boost turnout by only 1 to 4 percentage points.
Similar to the
participant in Wright's (2010)
study of teacher candidates, she initially found the 140 - character limit constraining, but once she adapted to the discourse system and common abbreviations she saw in other
participants» posts, Kim stated, «It was actually fun and challenging to
get my point across in 140 characters or less!»
In recent
studies, 92 % of
participants said the alarm clock reduced the time it took to
get out of bed while 66 % said they functioned better in the morning.
Resources available to Challenge
participants include a private online forum where they can
get support from their peers as well as from shelter veterinarians and a website with articles, forms, case
studies, webinars and more.