Sentences with phrase «differences between the study groups»

There were no substantive differences between study groups at baseline; 8506 women were randomized into the estrogen plus progestin group and 8102 into the placebo group (Table 1a).

Hotelling's T2 test indicated a nonsignificant (T2 = 1.7756, P > 0.05) difference between the study group vector and the reference population 50 % CI ellipse, confirming that the hydration of FFM was normal, so the DXA results were not influenced by altered soft - tissue hydration (21, 22).

Unfortunately this (healthy) piece of advice ended up making the differences between the study groups fairly modest.

Additional multivariate analyses were performed to adjust for group differences in race / ethnicity and clinic site at enrollment; there were no differences from the unadjusted results except that the difference between the study groups in condom use at last intercourse was no longer significant.

Although there were no significant differences between the study groups with respect to the nurses» ratings of maternal involvement in the physical and emotional care of the children in the PICU, the children's nurses, who were blinded with respect to study group, rated the COPE mothers as being significantly more involved in their children's care in the pediatric unit.

Significant differences between the study group and the reference groups were found, relating to sense of coherence, locus of control, life satisfaction and coping resources.

Not exact matches

For five years I studied the daily activities of 233 wealthy people and 128 people living in poverty and I discovered there is an immense difference between the two groups, but one significant similarity.

Just published in the journal the most careful, rigorous, and methodologically sound study ever conducted on this issue found numerous and significant differences between these groups — with the outcomes for children of h0m0 rated «suboptimal in almost every category

The groups have bridged differences between several people, opened individual counseling opportunities, let parishioners express «beefs» directly, and given the minister support in his ministry.21 I concur with Robert Leslie's suggestion that the most natural, unthreatening way to introduce personal sharing in churches is to combine this emphasis with study.

However, when one group of researchers studied whey vs. rice protein head to head, they found that both whey and rice offered similar post-exercise body composition benefits... there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups.

(I emphasize SOME because there are definitely studies which show no differences in outcome between the two groups.)

Before the study period, there was no statistical difference between the two groups in the prevalence of overweight kids.

In most studies we find very small differences between the two groups under investigation.

However, there was no significant difference in level of education between the three study groups.

One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17

In this study, there were no differences in between the two groups.

No significant differences between groups were observed at six to seven months in the risk of underweight (RR 0.92, 95 % CI [0.54 to 1.58], stunting (RR 1.20, 95 % CI [0.57 to 2.53]-RRB-, or wasting (RR 0.42, 95 % CI [0.12 to 1.50]; 1 study / 370 infants) or at nine to ten months (underweight RR 0.93, 95 % CI [0.64 to 1.36]; stunting RR 1.21, 95 % CI [0.62 to 2.37]; wasting RR 0.82, 95 % CI [0.39 to 1.71]; 1 study / 319 infants).

There were no differences between groups in the gestational age at randomization, time to uterine quiescence, time on study drug, length of hospitalization, days from randomization to delivery, incidence of side effects, or admissions to the neonatal intensive care unit.

Another study had been conducted by Yvonne et al. to assess the impact of the distribution of educational booklets during the postnatal period, but this time over the duration of complete breastfeeding, and the result was an insignificant difference noted for the duration of breastfeeding between the study group and the control group [21].

Baseline differences were noted between groups in two studies (Graffy 2004; Hoddinott 2012), in one study, the intervention was not delivered to all participants in the intervention group (Reeder 2014), and in one study, the study group differed significantly from the background population (Winterburn 2003).

This likely contributed to the nonsignificant difference in breastfeeding initiation and duration rates between the study groups.

While the study found no significant difference in maternal - infant relatedness between gesture / signing groups and those who did not learn them, there were small positive changes in the mothers» responsiveness to their infants» needs and non-verbal cues.

That is, we found some evidence that small studies (i.e., those with higher standard errors, located to the right of the figure), compared with larger studies, reported larger mean differences in systolic blood pressure between infant feeding groups.

In a meta - regression analysis, the mean differences between feeding groups observed in each study were unrelated to the mean total cholesterol concentrations in that study (P = 0.42).

Planned recruitment was for 320 women but ended after 225 women recruited, therefore the study had reduced power to detect differences between groups.

The estimates for the 7 studies reporting exclusive feeding were more homogeneous (χ2 = 8, P = 0.23) than were the estimates from all 17 studies; the overall mean difference in total cholesterol from the 7 studies reporting exclusive feeding was stronger (mean difference: − 0.15 mmol / L; 95 % CI: 0.23, − 0.06 mmol / L; Figure 3) than that in the remaining 10 studies (14 388 subjects) that did not report exclusive feeding (mean difference: − 0.01 mmol / L; 95 % CI: − 0.06, 0.03 mmol / L; χ2 = 14, P = 0.12; test for difference between groups, P = 0.005).

Meta - regression was also used to establish whether mean concentrations of total cholesterol in each study had any effect on mean differences between feeding groups.

The other dependent variable of the study, foregone medical care, also showed differences between various groups.

They identified stark differences between the DLL groups and English - only students over the course of the study.

At the end of the study, there was no difference between the cinnamon and placebo groups in terms of glucose or cholesterol.

One difference between the two groups was that the Americans started the study with much better glucose levels than the Pakistani group.

At three months, the study notes no difference between the groups in ADL total score or on a health - related quality of life questionnaire summary index.

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 main overall outcome was that we didn't find a difference between the groups,» says study author Dr. Darren Linkin, with the CDC Prevention Epicenter Program.

The small increase in the high - dose group did not translate into beneficial effects because authors found no difference between the three study groups for changes in spine, average total - hip, average femoral neck or total - body bone mineral density, trabecular bone score, muscle mass or sit - to - stand tests.

Because of discordant findings in studies on the relationship between the athlete's age and sports - related concussion symptoms and their duration, Lee, Odom, and colleagues chose to study age - related differences by applying rigorous matching criteria across different age groups and by using reliable change index (RCI) methodology.

Although in a previous study lower tactile thresholds were noted at the glans penis in circumcised men, the current investigation found no between - group differences in sensitivity across four stimulation types, lending no support to the widely accepted, but largely untested, keratinization hypothesis.

In his book, The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease, Swedish physician Uffe Ravnskov asserts that as of 1998, 27 studies on diet and heart disease had been published regarding 34 groups of patients; in 30 of those groups investigators found no difference in animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who did not.

«Non-blind studies more confidently concluded that differences between treatment and control groups were real, and not just due to chance variation.»

The researchers studied how active the reward circuitry of their brains was when anticipating and receiving money to learn whether there were differences between the two groups in the key brain regions.

«We further theorize that the essential difference between collaborative group work and direct instruction is that students learn about the «self as agent and others as (the) audience,»» a hypothesis explored in another paper by Zhang's co-authors, Richard C. Anderson, director of the Center for the Study of Reading, and graduate student Joshua A. Morris, both of the U. of I.

A new study by UCLA psychologists explains the differences between these two groups.

There was no significant increase in adverse events with any of the treatments over the control group, nor was there any difference in malaria incidence between groups during the one year period after the study treatment was stopped, suggesting that monthly administration of DP is a safe and effective treatment for reducing malaria among infants in regions with year - round transmission and high resistance to antifolates.

Lee is hoping to do further work in countries such as South Korea to reveal any differences between ethnic groups, as well as to study more women who drink higher amounts of alcohol, to investigate whether the possible difference between genders holds up for heavier drinkers.

Regarding the occurrence of leukemia (leukemic transformation), a typical late complication, there were no differences between the two treatment groups in the study.

«While most studies show there are no significant differences in clinical response between a biosimilar and the original product, some physicians and patient advocacy groups have expressed concern about how interchangeable they really are, and whether it is safe to switch from the brand name version to the biosimilar,» said lead author Dr Daniel Nagore of Progenika Biopharma, Derio, Spain.

Lawyers rarely heed scientists» cautions «that the neurobiological evidence at issue is weak, particularly for making claims about individuals rather than studying between - group differences,» they add.

A limitation of the study is that it says nothing about possible pre-existing neurobiological differences between the groups, an explanation for the observed differences that is equally valid.»

«For this research, we analyzed the differences between groups with and without weight loss,» said the study's lead author, Alexandra Gersing, M.D., from the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco.

The results show that there was no difference in the appearance of autoantibodies between the two study groups.