They were randomized into three treatment groups and received
the assigned study drug by injection into the eye until the DME resolved or stabilized.
Not exact matches
However, these
studies are not randomised controlled trials — the gold standard — in which people are randomly
assigned placebos or
drugs.
Set up to mimic the design of a
drug trial, the
study randomly
assigned aid to a subset of people within a development project called the «Graduation program.»
In this Dutch
study, while the people
assigned to the dose - reduction group initially had a higher relapse rate, after two to three years, the people who stayed on their
drugs had «caught up», and after seven years differences between the two groups were statistically insignificant (see graph).
The
study involved 21 women randomly
assigned to receive a 60 - hour infusion of the
drug or a placebo within six months after delivery.
Diana, whose twin sister died from the same disease, says there are multiple reasons she and John decided to participate in the resveratrol
study, and they now know he was
assigned to take the active
drug.
Hence, a total of 90 patients from nine centers were randomly
assigned to one of two
study arms for the phase II clinical trial: the first taking capsules of olaparib (400 mg twice daily) and the other taking a combination of the two
drugs (200 mg olaparib in capsule - form twice daily and 30 mg tablets of cediranib once daily).
For the «Treatment of Severe Childhood Aggression (TOSCA)
Study,» 168 children (ages 6 - 12) who had been diagnosed with ADHD and disruptive behavior disorder (DBD) and displayed severe physical aggression were randomly
assigned to two groups: parent training plus stimulant plus placebo (Basic treatment) or parent training plus stimulant plus the antipsychotic
drug risperidone (Augmented treatment).
The tablet will contain either a lower dose of the
study drug, a higher dose of the
study drug, or a placebo, depending on which group you are
assigned to.
The federal government is launching a very different kind of cancer
study that will
assign patients
drugs based on what genes drive their tumors rather than the type.
George L. Bakris, M.D., of University of Chicago Medicine, and colleagues randomly
assigned 823 patients (821 received
study drug) with diabetes and elevated albuminuria who were receiving an angiotensin - converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker to varying doses of the
drug finerenone or placebo.
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).
However, recent
studies have
assigned the
drug to pregnancy category C, which means that animal
studies have shown dangerous reactions in newborns but no significant data has been linked to humans.
In a new
study, researchers in Denmark
assigned obese people to one of four liraglutide doses, a placebo or the weight - loss
drug orlistat.
Secondly, the effectiveness of 12 step programmes for
drug treatment has been questioned because correlations between attendance and abstinence do not necessarily imply a causal connection between the two.1 This
study shows that patients randomly
assigned to such programmes are less likely to abstain from
drug use than patients randomly
assigned to a cognitive behavioural intervention.