Sentences with phrase «double blind study which»

Then there's this randomised double blind study which fed sleep deprived volunteers either 3 grams of glycine before bed or a placebo.

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Additionally, this is not a blind study (forget double blind)-- that is the people collecting the data knew which person gave which answers.

A 2001 double - blind study at the Mayo Clinic randomized 799 discharged coronary surgery patients into a control group and an intercessory prayer group, which received prayers at least once a week from 5 intercessors per patient.

No statistically valid, double - blind study has ever shown prayer to affect anything but heart rate, which is a meditative effect.

In the first study, an eight - week double - blind trial, the participants who took the active ingredient versus the placebo lost 21 pounds, 17 of which was body fat.

Another more recent study assessed the efficiency of collagen peptides in a randomized, double blind, controlled multicenter trial, in which 250 subjects with primary osteoarthritis of the knee were given 10g of collagen peptides daily.

(Los Angeles, CA October 3, 2014)-- A 2014 third - party, double - blind, crossover study at the University of Tampa, has shown that leucine, the key amino acid to activate muscle building, was absorbed faster from Oryzatein ® rice protein than leucine from whey protein, which can be of superior benefit in the sports nutrition industry.

The study was double blinded, but it is conceivable that participants could develop insight into which group they were in because of the compressive effect of the socks and the fact that they felt «tight.»

For one thing, they point out, acupuncture studies are extremely difficult to double - blind — a methodological approach in which neither the researchers nor patients know who is receiving the treatment under investigation and who is receiving the placebo or sham.

The study was conducted double - blind, which means that neither the researchers nor the participants were allowed to know whether they received the active capsules until afterwards.

A double - blind study design was used so that neither the mothers nor the researchers knew which spray was administered.

«To prove the efficacy we need double - blind control studies, which is very difficult to conduct in such settings,» he says.

The study was double - blind, so neither the participants nor the researchers knew at the time of testing who had received which capsule.

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 investigators studied the effects of ∆ 9 - THC on electrical brain activity in 24 human subjects who participated in a three - day study during which they received two doses of intravenous ∆ 9 - THC or placebo in a double - blind, randomized, cross-over, and counterbalanced design.

The study was «double - blind,» meaning that neither the researchers nor the participants knew which people were taking esketamine and which were taking the placebo.

The FDA based approval on two double - blind studies, involving a total of 1,800 patients, which showed decreased pain after use of doses ranging from 300 to 450 mg a day.

In a double - blind, placebo - controlled study, they tested subjects» cognitive abilities using three methods, asking them to do simple math, a timed - response task, and the classic Stroop test (in which color words like red are written in other colors, like blue, and subjects are asked about the color or the word).

The study was double - blind: neither the subjects or the researchers knew which set of capsules was the placebo and which was Shroom TECH Sport.

The double blind study, which analyzed performance, body composition, and hormone levels, randomized twenty - eight individuals to ingest either T + or a calorie - matching placebo, while all subjects adhered to a structured exercise program.

Secondly, bitter taste stimulates the secretion of polypeptide YY (PYY), which reduces food intake in subjects of normal weight, so researchers decided to test the effects of the peptide infusion on the appetites of 12 obese and 12 lean subjects in a double - blind, placebo - controlled crossover study.

Researcher Burke and his co-workers studied this proposal when they compared the changes in muscle creatine, muscle fiber morphology, body composition, hydration status, and exercise performance between vegetarians and non-vegetarians over an eight - week resistance - training program, in which, in double blind fashion, ten vegetarians took creatine and eight took a placebo 2.

Dr. Abram Hoffer, who is announced as «discredited» by Wikipedia, has successfully been treating patients with pyschosis for 50 years with vitamin B3, Niacin, which was successful in pyschitry's first placebo control double blind study.

The study was double blind, which means that neither the scientists nor the participants knew which diet they were following.

The study was a double - blind, randomised - controlled crossover trial in which the Curcumin or placebo were taken two days before to three days after eccentric exercise and the results found that only the Curcumin had beneficial effects.

Bray also discusses the fact that sweetened beverages in general, as compared to sweeteners added to solid foods, have a greater tendency to cause weight gain, citing a randomized, double - blind European study by Rabin and others, which found that drinking calorically sweetened beverages resulted in greater weight gain over the ten - week study than did drinking diet drinks.8 Since the beverages in this study were sweetened with sucrose, Bray called for a second randomized controlled study to compare sucrose - and HFCS - sweetened beverages.

Next up was Don't Use Antiseptic Mouthwash, which describes the role the natural good bacteria flora on our tongue plays in the performance - boosting effect of high nitrate vegetables, and Out of the Lab onto the Track, which documented the randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled crossover studies that convinced the scientific establishment of the real - world effect.

The study was well designed; it was a double blind, placebo controlled trial on humans, which is the gold standard of scientific research.

(Which raises the question, how would you do a double blind study to test the placebo effect itself.

A paper reporting a «rigorous double blind» study — the VIGOR trial — was submitted to NEJM in 1998, got through peer review at one of the most up - tight journals in the world of medicine, and — by way of cherry - picking the data submitted (selecting out some study subjects whose adverse events histories which, if considered, would've significantly affected the safety profile for rofecoxib and revealed something that Merck really didn't want us prescribers to learn about their «blockbuster» product — was published to be touted by Merck's marketing weevils as solid proofs of Vioxx's tolerability, efficacy, and safety.

While we're at it on the subject of bad research, Bill, why don't you speak with your brother about clinical research funded by the pharmaceuticals and devices manufacturers and ask him about how even ``... very rigorous double blind studies [which you describe as having] any credibility» can be jerked around to provide data for studies that are fundamentally deceptive by way of suggestio falsi, suppressio veri.

It's odd that in other scientific fields financial incentive and confirmation bias are considered big issues — which is why drug company funded studies are viewed more sceptically and why double - blind testing is considered a necessary standard.