Sentences with phrase «control studies provided»

However, a 2013 meta - analysis of 6 prospective and 6 case control studies provided insufficient evidence that coffee consumption significantly increases hip fracture risk.

Objective analysis of findings from controlled studies provides little support for her speculations.

Not exact matches

Though most Americans believe employers should be required to supply birth control in their health insurance plans, they are split down the middle on whether businesses should be required to provide wedding services for same - sex couples, as well as on whether transgender people should be allowed to use the restroom of their choice, says a study released this week by the Pew Research Center.

If I am wrong you can provide where in the study this was controlled for «Christians» and what the definition is.

Many say that the antioxidant action provided by superfoods protects against cancer and heart disease, among a host of other ills — while others point out that few carefully controlled studies have been conducted.

Recent research has been conducted by third - party university professors and affiliated laboratories, and included a field survey and controlled laboratory studies that investigated and provided evidence to support the cleanliness of corrugated packaging.

This video provides recommendations on how to control weedy rice, from results of collaborative research studies among IRRI, the Rice Research and Development Institute in Sri Lanka, University of Ruhuna, and the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

All the food for the study participants was provided and the diets were controlled for gluten, FODMAPs, and food chemical components known to elicit responses in food sensitive people (such as salicylates, amines and glutamates).

This study looked at genetic (varieties) and management (row spacing and nitrogen) options to minimise the impact of climate change, using rain - out shelters to control rainfall; the results provided a platform to model wheat production in future climates.

In the evidence pyramid a randomized controlled trial is the highest form of primary research, and a synthesis of studies provides the best evidence.

The table provides information about study population characteristics; details of intervention and control groups; main results; quality assessment of studies and the outcome measure contributing to the meta - analysis.

The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm by subjects working from memory as compared to subjects using a decision support tool that provides auditory and visual prompts to guide implementation of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm during simulated neonatal resuscitation.Healthcare professionals (physicians, nurse practitioners, obstetrical / neonatal nurses) with a current NRP card were randomized to the control or intervention group and performed three simulated neonatal resuscitations.

Data from these studies will provide the controlled mechanical environment for studies of breast cancer mechanobiology.

We are «early adopters» of new technologies, if we strongly believe that they appear promising, and if there are good randomized, controlled studies that prove they provide a benefit.

Except for male sex, which was not a risk factor in study participants, the ORs obtained from participants were similar to those obtained from all eligible cases and controls, providing no evidence of a noticeable selection bias.

The 17 studies included in the meta - analysis provided a total of 9650 leukemia cases and 16526 control individuals for which there were breastfeeding data that could be analyzed.

Subsequent prospective studies yielded similar results, whether they controlled for parental age, child age, race and family structure; 12 poverty, child age, emotional support, cognitive stimulation, sex, race and the interactions among these variables; 13 or other factors.14 — 17 These studies provide the strongest evidence available that physical punishment is a risk factor for child aggression and antisocial behaviour.

For grade 3 (lowest quality), either breastfeeding information was not provided by the mother or a close relative of the patient, diagnosis was not confirmed by a physician, or control subjects were recruited to the study by the patients.

In addition, some recent cohort studies provided detailed information of adjustment for confounders, whereas some early case - control studies adjusted for fewer factors.

«The elegant studies here provide proof of concept that targeting LMPTP in the liver improves glucose control and liver insulin signalling in animals,» says Daniel Drucker of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, who says that targeting enzymes like LMPTP has long been a goal for researchers tackling diabetes.

At the same time, the study results provide further argument for notion that m6A methylation, partly controlled by ZFP217 signaling, is relevant in human cancers.

«We think this study now provides a comprehensive model of how thrombopoietin controls platelet production, and perhaps gives some insight into the biology and mechanism behind specific myeloproliferative disorders,» Dr Ng said.

Another reason for choosing it in the modeled study is winter wheat can withstand extreme winter weather conditions and provides a good option to control wind erosion during early spring, when the region commonly experiences high winds, Ale said.

Growth - controlled and structure - controlled hydrogels are also useful in the study and development of flexible electronics and soft robotics, providing increased flexibility compared to conventional robots, and mimicking how living organisms move and react to their surroundings.

Darlene Kertes and colleagues tested the commonly held belief that pet dogs provide social support for kids using a randomized controlled study — the gold standard in research.

Providing women who take a powerful acne drug with a fact sheet about contraception while visiting the dermatologist can significantly improve their awareness of the most effective birth control options and may prevent unintended pregnancies and birth defects that can be caused by the drug, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study published Feb. 4 in the journal JAMA Dermatology.

«It is a very good paper which provides valuable new insights about the physical processes controlling the change in reflectivity of the Greenland ice sheet and specifically its darkening over time,» said Eric Rignot, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies ice sheets but was not involved with the new study.

«Our study provides compelling evidence that the fetus regulates the timing of its birth, and that this control occurs after these two gene regulatory proteins − SRC - 1 and SRC - 2 − increase the production of surfactant components, surfactant protein A and platelet activating factor,» said senior author Dr. Carole Mendelson, Professor of Biochemistry, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at UT Southwestern.

Researchers are still parsing out the precise physiologic effects of cold on the cardiovascular system, but some controlled lab studies run on volunteers have provided clues.

«The novelty of this study is that it provides potential neuroimaging - based tools that can be used with new patients to inform about the degree of certain neural pathology underlying their pain symptoms,» said Marina López - Solà, a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory and lead author of the new study.

Mouse study suggests wirelessly controlled nanoparticles can provide a nonsurgical way to do deep brain stimulation

Nynke van der Laan of University Medical Centre Utrecht will replicate a study published in Science in 2009 that provided the first explanation for the neural basis of successful self - control in humans.

Author Sheila Crowell, assistant professor of psychology at the U, says that results of the large and tightly controlled study also suggest that as an entertainment medium, 3 - D may not provide a different experience from 2 - D, insofar as evoking emotional responses go.

«Although this wasn't an experiment, it was a well - controlled longitudinal study in a racially diverse sample — so it provides a strong clue that being socially integrated early in life is good for our health independent of a number of other factors such as personality, weight in childhood, and the family's social status in childhood,» she explains.

This mesoscopic system may provide insight into the fuzzy boundary between the classical and quantum worlds by allowing controlled studies of quantum measurement and quantum decoherence.

Studying these mechanisms provided the researchers with «a source of variation that we think is effectively random,» says Doyle, adding that it represents «hopefully a better apples - to - apples comparison» of patients than prior studies that did not try to control for differences in which kinds of patients visit which hospitals.

The doctors and 254 women who provided contact information and enrolled in the study were assigned randomly to either a control group (the women received a list of resources and normal physicians» care if needed; the doctors received a basic education packet on intimate partner violence) or an experimental group.

Because nuclear spin - controlled electrical current regulates output of light by the OLED, it provides a way to study how to make OLEDs more efficient.

«Weight does not hamper the effectiveness of inhaled steroids in preschoolers, but this study provides clear evidence that maintaining a healthy weight in preschoolers may be an effective strategy for controlling asthma.»

This study provides experimental evidence which shows the important role of RNA levels in the controlling the fate of embryonic stem cells, and shows an understanding of RNA's ability to differentiate stem cells at the molecular level.

This provoked a strong rebuttal by wildlife ecologist Graeme Caughley, who suggested that because the factors that may have resulted in this irruption were «hopelessly confounded,» a case study of the Kaibab provided an ineffective example of top - down control.

Their website provides resources on a variety of evaluation approaches from case study, to participatory evaluation, to randomized controlled trials and outcome mapping.

Additionally, since ribosomal RNA has been shown to have specified controlled of cellular fate, this study provides a theoretical basis for disease therapy and neuroscience research and may lead to future advances in treating degenerative diseases or even brain cancers.

The 2 - year study, carried out by the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Nairobi and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, provides the missing piece in a series of trials.

Brown University ecologist Marc Tatar says the current study, published in this week's Science, provides «really profound evidence» that longevity is controlled not by actual resources but rather by hormones that are cued to resources (such as the way plants sense winter by sunlight changes).

«When we first learned that a patient had regained voluntary control as a result of spinal stimulation, we were cautiously optimistic,» said Roderic Pettigrew, Ph.D., M.D., director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at NIH, which provided support for the study.

The voluntary program was offered to workers, free of charge, at four of the five plants; the fifth did not participate because it used a different health insurance plan, providing a control group for the study.

They pooled functional data from 19 published studies, providing a total of 281 patients with BPD and 293 healthy control subjects.

The research, which appears online Aug. 1 in the journal Annals of Neurology, is the first study from a double - blind controlled randomized trial of an exon - skipping agent to provide conclusive proof based on the standard six - minute walk test used to measure muscle function in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common form of muscular dystrophy in children.

The results of the study, published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, suggest it is this improved attentional control that provides the «bilingual advantage», rather than a better - than - average inhibitory control.