Sentences with phrase «baseline analysis of»

Principle among the needs is a comprehensive baseline analysis of the spiny lobster fishery associated with a science - based monitoring program.

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This is partly because the meta - analysis predominantly included studies with a high baseline consumption of sugar sweetened drinks, in which a tax may have greater potential to reduce energy intake.

A recent meta - analysis of sport - related concussion testing (7) suggests a note of caution in using the SAC for individual athletes who may have memorized sections of the tool from either baseline testing or knowledge through teammates.

Baseline variables were measured using established valid instruments and were used as covariates to adjust for differences between randomisation groups in some of the analyses in the paper.

Detection of major periodontal pathogens in saliva and analysis of serum and saliva antibodies against major periodontal pathogens as well as a vaginal swab for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis at baseline were carried out.

Analysis of mean percentage changes in bone mineral density over time from the two study baselines consisted of a repeated measure model.

Yet analysis of past French Polynesian Zika patients, published in The Lancet, suggests that exposure to Zika exacerbates the baseline GBS threat some 20-fold.

In a separate analysis, the researchers examined the association of fruit consumption with total mortality and CV mortality in more than 61,000 patients from the China Kadoorie Biobank who had CVD or hypertension at baseline.

The findings of this study — which focused on men aged 50 to 69 years old at the baseline of the trial - are particularly striking because analyses in nutritional epidemiology usually assume a uniform effect of a nutrient.

A Cox hazard regression analysis, which adjusted for 17 baseline variables, was performed to determine any association between testosterone supplementation and three - year outcomes of death, non-fatal heart attack and stroke.

An additional analysis showed that the percentage of patients with normal baseline blood pressure who developed hypertension5 was 23.2 % for ibuprofen, 19.0 % for naproxen and 10.3 % for celecoxib (odds ratio [OR] 0.39, p = 0.004 and OR 0.49, p = 0.03 for celecoxib versus ibuprofen and naproxen, respectively).

(Prior to combat, the veterans had completed the Armed Forces Qualifications Test, which included measures of intelligence that provided a baseline for the new analysis.)

«Intuitively, many had thought that men with «poor» nutritional status at baseline may benefit more from long - term multivitamin use on cardiovascular outcomes; however, we did not see any evidence for this in our recent analysis,» said corresponding author Howard Sesso, ScD, MPH, of the Division of Preventive Medicine and the Division of Aging at BWH.

The main benefit of the study, based on new analyses of the carbon content of the country's coal, is that «it provides a baseline for future emission policies,» says Dabo Guan, a co-author of the paper and a climate change economist at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, U.K.

The individual human RMs provide a baseline for comparing and contrasting genes from distinctly different lineages while the Ashkenazic trio set aids the analysis of genetic links between family members.

In analyses adjusting for known risk factors for diabetes, including age, sex, body mass index, neck circumference, smoking, income status and comorbidities at baseline, patients with an AHI > 30 had a 30 % higher risk of developing diabetes than those with an AHI < 5.

A secondary analysis demonstrated that malaria risk was reduced among the subgroup of those in the iron group who had iron deficiency and anemia at baseline.»

A sensitivity analysis was conducted that compared the rates of nonblunt cigar use at the 6 - and 12 - month follow - up assessments by baseline e-cigarette use.

«A subgroup analysis that combines data from children in both the single - and multiple - dose studies demonstrated a mean 5 point increase in muscle function score in children who received at least 9 mg of ISIS - SMNRx between the ages of two and 10 who did not have severe scoliosis or baseline HFMSE scores at the extreme low or high ends of the scale.

Consisting of sample information, analysis BAMs and preliminary baseline genotypes for 2,512 samples collected from major malaria - endemic regions in Africa and Asia, this represents one of the largest collections of open access Plasmodium falciparum genomes in the world.

Subgroup analyses showed benefit with the combination in all groups, with the exception of those with brain metastases at baseline, though this included a total of only 12 patients.

For samples analyzed using Analysis Pipeline version 2.0 or later, the SV baseline genome set is comprised of 52 genomes from the Complete Genomics Diversity Panel.

For samples analyzed using Analysis Pipeline version 2.0 or later, the baseline genome set is comprised of 52 unrelated genomes from the Complete Genomics Diversity Panel.

Linear regression analysis found no significant relationship between baseline parameters and indexes of improvement in motor function.

Her team is testing the existing state - of - the - art of the platform, setting baseline analytics and doing diagnostic analysis.

This is a great way to get baseline measurements of your hormones, and a very informative and comprehensive analysis from the experts at ZRT Lab.

We repeated the analyses in those who were free of CVD, cancer, and diabetes at baseline (1084 women with 56 inflammatory - related deaths and 843 men with 58 inflammatory - related deaths).

The 2735 participants included in the present analysis were significantly younger than the 757 participants who had not provided a complete or plausible FFQ at baseline (median age: 65 y compared with 70 y), less likely to be current smokers (13.6 % compared with 17.4 %), and less likely to have diabetes (7.5 % compared with 9.7 %) or CVD (18.2 % compared with 24.9 %) at baseline; they were also less likely to die during the 13 - y follow - up of all causes (31 % compared with 52 %) and of inflammatory diseases (6 % compared with 10 %)(all P < 0.05).

The persuasive analysis indicated that administration of choline supplements to healthy elderly adults led to a spectacular four-fold improvement in serum GH levels, in contrast to baseline values.

These conflicting findings may result from geographic differences in organic production regulations governing antimicrobial usage, use of antimicrobials in conventional dairy production, and baseline prevalence, as well as laboratory methods, study designs, or methods of analysis employed.

Further analysis [13] of the same data revealed intrinsic differences between the subjects, with the hyper responders starting with higher baseline numbers of satellite cells (the precursors to muscle cells) than both the moderate responders and especially the non-responders.

Initial training loads and analyses used the highest of the two 1RM values assessed at baseline.

Sensitivity analyses excluding extreme values of sugar intake and excluding person - observations with self - reported doctor diagnosis at baseline attenuated the association of sugar intake from sweet food / beverages and recurrent depression slightly (before P for tertile trend 0.003 after 0.022 and 0.010, respectively).

Further adjustments for central obesity and physical health (not shown), exclusion of 709 person - observations (377 in CES - D analysis) with reported doctor diagnosis of depression and person - observations with extreme values of sugar intake at baseline did not change the results.

In sensitivity analyses, main analyses were repeated by: (a) excluding participants with unknown or reported doctor diagnosis of depression at each baseline (at phases 3 / 5/7 / 9: 166 / 156/193 / 209 individuals) and: (b) excluding participants with extreme values of sugar intake (> 7 SD) at phases 3 / 5/7 / 9: 5 / 3/4 / 4 individuals.

When we stratified our analysis by weight at baseline (normal weight [BMI < 25 kg / m2], overweight [BMI ≥ 25 and < 30 kg / m2], and obese [BMI ≥ 30 kg / m2]-RRB- the negative weight change associated with greater intake of fruits and vegetables was stronger among overweight individuals compared to normal - weight individuals (S10 Table, p - values for interaction terms between total fruit and BMI 0.03 in HPFS, 0.06 in NHS, and 0.09 in NHS II; p - values for interaction terms between total vegetable intake and BMI 0.03 in all three cohorts).

In our analysis, the association of sugar intake and recurrent depression was attenuated by measures of body fatness in participants without doctor diagnosis of depression at baseline supporting the hypothesis of an indirect effect mediated by adiposity26, 27,28 driving the association of sugar intake and recurrent depression.

Analysis of baseline data using an ANOVA for parametric data and a Kruskal — Wallis test for nonparametric data showed that all groups were equivalent on all sleep measures (i.e., time needed to fall asleep, number and length of night - time awakenings, total time asleep, fatigue level next day).

A pooled analysis of nine prospective studies that included 293,172 subjects free of coronary heart disease at baseline found that people who took ≥ 700 mg / day of supplemental vitamin C had a 25 % lower risk of coronary heart disease incidence than those who took no supplemental vitamin C [61].

Finally, sensitivity analyses were performed by excluding individuals who might have made dietary adjustments and / or lifestyle changes because of chronic disease at baseline (i.e., hypertension, hyperlipidemia, myocardial infarction, and / or stroke) and by excluding misreports of energy according to Goldberg criterion categories, defined as «under - reporters» with a ratio of energy intake to basal metabolic rate < 1.14 and «over-reporters» with a ratio of > 2.1 (29).

In other words, Krueger and Zhu also now report consistently positive results for African - Americans, regardless of how ethnicity is defined, even when kindergartners are included in the analysis - as long as baseline scores (and only baseline scores) are taken into account in the statistical estimation of programmatic effects.

But since these analyses also introduce risks of bias (principally by including the kindergartners for whom no baseline scores were available), the results in Figure 2 are inferior to the results provided in Figure 1.

The figure's results are based on analyses that exclude from the study all kindergartners, none of whom were tested at baseline.

Moreover, when students without baseline scores are added to the analysis, they obtain results that are, once again, virtually indistinguishable from ours (see the last two sets of columns in Figure 3).

Specifically, he will work with the PI and core project staff to develop an analysis plan, direct the evaluation of the efficacy of the Core Knowledge Language Arts Listening and Learning Read Aloud Program, articulate the fully specified multi-level models used to estimate treatment impacts on child - level vocabulary, listening comprehension and domain knowledge outcomes, and guide the secondary analyses that examine whether the quality of read alouds mediate treatment effects on child outcomes and the baseline, child - level moderators of treatment effects.

A research assistant will be supervised by Dr. Kim and will be responsible for organizing a student - level data set that will be used for the impact analyses, cleaning the data set at each wave of data collection, monitoring and reporting attrition across waves, and conducting descriptive analyses to check for baseline equivalence, attrition across waves, and posttest differences on the child - level outcomes.

So, we started by doing very detailed analysis of what had been done previously, and then began the survey really to just get baseline data and then track over time what was going on with Australia's principals.

The National Conference of State Legislatures provided baseline information for this analysis.

This baseline difference motivates a brief analysis of ability interactions and peer effects, discussed after presentation of the main results and robustness checks.

Repeating the analysis above with these two measures of parent characteristics added to the baseline control vector gives the following predictive effects for college attendance based on test scores which are somewhat lower than the results above using the baseline controls.