Sentences with phrase «analysis of previous studies»

Newer research, including meta analyses of previous studies looking at saturated fats, has completely exonerated saturated fats from being associated with heart disease.

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One of the studies we need is a biblical analysis of «rebellious» generations... seems like Barna has us all thinking a «lost» generation is the previous generation's fault... the Bible doesn't support that at all.

In this case, the British Medical Journal study is a so - called meta - analysis of seven previous studies, found that those who eat a lot of chocolate have significantly fewer heart and cardiovascular problems than those who do not.

Future studies with larger numbers of breastfeeding mothers could allow for paired comparisons before and after an intervention, as well as analysis of the impact of independent variables like gender, year of training, age, or previous breastfeeding experience.

The analysis supports a previous government study in 2001 which estimated that over 3 billion dollars could be saved if half of new mothers breastfed their babies.

In the most recent meta - analysis of published studies, Robert Carpenter and colleagues found that the risk of SIDS increases dramatically for young babies when their mothers have consumed 2 units or more of alcohol in the previous 24 hours.

Parental reporting, however, was accurate in a previous study.13 Because of the number of comparisons in these analyses, some of the significant associations could have occurred by chance.

This meta - analysis makes a significant contribution to the available evidence on this topic because it includes 6 original studies on the subject not included in previous meta - analyses.38 - 43 Moreover, to our knowledge, this is significantly the largest and most up - to - date review and analysis of current knowledge on childhood leukemia and breastfeeding.

In the previous version of this review we included 33 studies with 11,961 women in the analysis of women who had stopped exclusive breastfeeding at up to six months.

In the previous version of this review, we included 24 studies with 7693 women in the analysis of women who had stopped exclusive breastfeeding before four to six weeks.

Analysis of the most recent British Election Study data demonstrated that while support for UKIP will fall after May's European Parliament elections, this decline will be by a much smaller margin than in previous years.

Their analysis of data in previous studies done by The Cancer Genome Atlas group have shown that the types of abnormal methylation levels they found are lower in smokers who have quit for more than 10 years than those who have not quit.

«Previous studies have demonstrated an association between stress and skin symptoms, but those studies relied on small patient samples, did not use standardized tools, are anecdotal in nature, or focused their analyses on a single skin disease,» says Gil Yosopovitch, MD, Chair of the Department of Dermatology at LKSOM, Director of the Temple Itch Center, and corresponding author of the study.

Cutting the amount of short - lived, climate - warming emissions such as soot and methane in our skies won't limit global warming as much as previous studies have suggested, a new analysis shows.

«Previous investigations into the effect of the gender of a baby on its mother's lifespan have been mixed, so our new analysis really is just another brick in the wall,» says Samuli Helle of the University of Turku in Finland, the study's lead author.

Agricultural economist Marshall Burke and his colleagues conducted a meta analysis of 60 previous studies that looked at climatic events and their link to human conflict, including the fall of the Mayan Empire, civil conflicts in Africa, ethnic clashes in India, road rage in the U.S. and even the type of pitches thrown during Major League Baseball games when temperatures rise.

Isotope analyses focused on 15N, which reflects dietary animal protein and 34S, which showed an increased amount of railway vegetation for rail - using bears in a previous study.

He studied analyses of previous reef extinctions and accrued more and more evidence of the effects of changing sea levels, temperature stresses, predation by crown - of - thorns starfish and human - influenced changes in nutrient levels.

Previous findings from the HOPE study showed exercise improved AI - associated joint pain, but results from this analysis of favorable decreases in body weight, fat and CRP found these markers did not mediate the beneficial effect of exercise on AI joint pain.

The objective of Stéphane Guay, lead author of the study, was to identify and summarize all previous research on verbal abuse in the workplace that took into account victims» sex in the analyses.

Our analysis points to both previous studies and our results being driven by the same insertion of an additional small piece of DNA, an insertion which has a known function.

The analysis follows previous studies that show that a business - as - usual scenario, which assumes a continued growth of global emissions, would deliver a warming increase of 4.5 °C by 2100.

Previous studies that used only information from genetic analyses of current species have suggested that birds arose anywhere from 72 million to 170 million years ago.

The new protocols of sequencing and analysis allow us to extract quite more information than in previous studies, which were limited to specific regions or surface waters, to an unprecedented level of resolution.»

This meta - analysis reinforced previous findings that feedback is effective in producing energy savings but results varied significantly from study to study so researchers broke down each study's moderating factors (i.e., feedback methods, length of feedback, etc.) to help figure out which types of feedback are most effective.

While previous studies have focused on Batesian mimicry in the common cuckoo and Eurasian sparrowhawk, this is the first time that the plumage patterns of cuckoos have been analysed using digital image analysis techniques.

Update: Six French scientific academies issued a statement on 19 October, saying the Séralini study could not reverse previous conclusions that this and other GM crops are safe, because of problems with the experimental design, statistical analysis and animals used, and inadequate data.

Unlike the two previous analyses, this one didn't lump together studies of variable sizes and designs.

«We were not expecting to see the effect,» Pirkle says, because previous studies — which tended to combine men and women in the analysis — had shown no effects at higher levels of perchlorate.

Previous genetic studies have examined the association of aspirin, NSAIDs, or both with colorectal cancer according to a limited number of candidate genes or pathways.6 - 10 Thus, to comprehensively identify common genetic markers that characterize individuals who may obtain differential benefit from aspirin and NSAIDs, we conducted a discovery - based, genome - wide analysis of gene × environment interactions between regular use of aspirin, NSAIDs, or both and single - nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in relation to risk of colorectal cancer.

Moreover, our previous study found that regular use of aspirin after diagnosis was associated with longer survival among the 15 % to 30 % of patients with colorectal cancer and with a mutation in phosphatidylinositol -4,5-bisphosphate 3 - kinase, catalytic subunit alpha (PIK3CA [NCBI Entrez Gene 5290]-RRB-, one of the PI3K family genes.30 Markedly improved survival associated with aspirin according to PIK3CA status was also found in an analysis within a separate clinical trial cohort.31 Further investigations for the joint effect of these genes would be helpful to better understand the underlying molecular mechanisms of aspirin, NSAIDs, and colorectal cancer.

Molecular analyses of the chest sample in a previous study confirmed the diagnosis of tuberculosis and hinted that TB DNA was extremely well preserved in her body.

In a sophisticated analysis, the scientists compared these data with those from previous studies involving tens of thousands of other people.

According to a new analysis in the journal Ecological Monographs, by researchers at the University of Wisconsin — Madison and colleagues, the world's rivers and streams pump about 10 times more methane into our atmosphere than scientists estimated in previous studies.

We expect painful images from the previous study to produce a greater P300 mean amplitude compared to neutral images, and the depth of cognitive analysis after a thought probe to be the same regardless of attentional state.

An analysis of data from a previous study of more than 1,350 smokers intending to quit after a hospitalization found that those who reported using electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) during the study period were less likely to have successfully quit smoking 6 months after entering the study.

Note: Special thanks to Ken Croswell on studies revising previous estimates of the system's age based on analyses of its brown dwarf companions and to Mike Stevens for notifying us of the discovery of Epsilon Indi bb.

Zinchenko and her colleague, Marie Arsalidou, conducted a meta - analysis of 36 previous studies that used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain responses to social norms — such as fairness — and violations of norms.

Dr Amanda Mason - Jones, Senior Lecturer in Global Public Health and lead author of the review, said: «Previous studies have focused on self - reported outcomes only - this is the first review and meta - analysis to look at only measurable biological outcomes.

Previous studies have suggested that exercise can protect against these types of illnesses, but no significant association was found in this analysis.

Previous analyses of the study data indicated that lifestyle intervention as well as medication is able to reduce the development of diabetes from pre-diabetes.

The analysis was published this month in the Cochrane Collaboration, a journal in which the results of previous studies are looked at together to give physicians and health care professionals guidance in clinical practice.

For this reason, a team of Japanese researchers conducted a meta - analysis that combined the results of several previous studies.

By conducting a meta - analysis, an analysis of previous conducted studies, the researchers were able to compare results from a variety of studies and discern larger trends across studies.

Unlike previous studies which focused on the amount of time a person walked or ran, this analysis determined that as long as the energy expended was equivalent, so were the benefits.

However, this previous analysis selected studies of shorter duration, excluded trials that had calorie - restricted diets, and didn't take study intensity into account.

Meta - analysis box plots showing differences by fasting status in the distributions of serum glucose concentrations (A)(P = 0.047) and BMI (B)(P = 0.044) in the combined populations (meta - analysis, n = 648) of the current study (n = 200)(38) and a previous fasting study (n = 448)(37).

The authors of this research actually combined results together from seven previous studies to do a more robust analysis of the garlic - fasting blood sugar relationship.

A recent report on the Health Professionals Follow Up Study (Jensen et al., in press 2004) confirms the results of previous individual studies and meta - analyses of servings of whole grain foods or products with whole - grain content above 25 percent (Anderson et al., 2000; Fraser et al., 1992; Jacobs et al., 1998, 1999; Liu et al., 1999; Steffen et al., 2003).

This study agrees with previous findings from a meta - analysis of cohort studies (1).