Sentences with phrase «first randomized study»

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First, the topline numbers: The study was an observational one rather than a randomized control trial, the latter of which is considered to be the «gold standard» of clinical studies.

Through a randomized trial of more than 3,000 first - time mothers, the research team out of the University of Birmingham in England studied the effects of two laboring positions.

The most recent findings of the Belarus study (an excellent, large scale, randomized, first world study) were recently published and show that 11 year - olds have a 17 % GREATER chance of being obese or overweight if they were in the breastfeeding group than in the control group.

Static stretching neither prevented or induced injury when compared to not stretching before running, according to the results of a first - of - its - kind large scale randomized study presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in San Diego.

In 2007, researchers published the first randomized, controlled study of the effect of being raised in an orphanage; that study, and subsequent research on the same sample of Romanian orphans, found that compared with babies placed with a foster family, those who were sent to institutions had lower IQs, slower physical growth, problems with human attachment and differences in functioning in brain areas related to emotional development.

The study used a randomized, crossover design with half of the subjects completing condition 1 first.

Randomized studies showed that preterm children require a dietary supply of DHA in the first few weeks of life for optimal visual development, but it is unclear whether full - term children experience similar benefits from breast milk or DHA supplements.

The study conducted in Philadelphia is believed to be the first randomized controlled trial to test inexpensive interventions that restore vacant urban land and reduce violence and fear among residents.

«While randomized clinical trials are needed to test whether this is a causal relationship, these findings indicate doctors should consider using or re-starting ACEIs and ARBs as first - line blood pressure medications for patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis,» said Jenny I. Shen, MD, an LA BioMed researcher and corresponding author of the study.

In a multi-centre gastrointestinal surgery study, first - time idiopathic pancreatitis patients were randomized into a surgery group and a control group..

«For the first time in a randomized study, the strategy of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation may be better than the current approach for these patients.

The UConn study is the first to use a randomized, controlled design to look at couples» progress in less structured and widely available weight loss programs.

«This is the first study to show that a systemic therapy provides significant clinical benefit in a randomized fashion to advanced uveal melanoma patients, who have very limited treatment options,» said Richard D. Carvajal, MD, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan - Kettering and lead author on the study.

The first of its kind, the study applies the method of field experiments, or randomized controlled trials, to the question of how effective PES is.

«This is the first placebo - controlled, randomized study of a vaccine for glioblastoma to show a significant benefit in a clinically meaningful endpoint, progression - free survival.

The new study is the first to use a randomized experimental protocol to test the effects of greening on crime.

The study is believed to be the first and largest, multicenter, double - blind, randomized controlled trial of its kind to investigate the use of sublingual immunotherapy against ragweed allergy.

The study was the first ASD research to use a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial, or SMART, design.

In what appears to be the first randomized controlled study in this cohort, researchers found that 600 IUs did not restore what many experts consider the optimal blood level of vitamin D within 16 weeks.

The first study enrolled older adults diagnosed with late - life depression into a treatment trial where they were randomized to receive either a mobile, tablet - based treatment technology developed by Akili Interactive Labs called Project: EVO or an in - person therapy technique known as problem - solving therapy (PST).

The study was the first randomized - controlled trial to examine the potential benefits of the low fat diet on the management of MS.. The study found no significant differences between the two groups in brain lesions detected on MRI brain scans or on other measures of MS.. But while the number of trial participants was relatively small, study leaders believe the significantly improved fatigue symptoms merited further and larger studies of the diet.

Earlier observational studies had shown a similar impact of ARVs reducing sexual transmission in heterosexual couples, but this was the first to demonstrate the prevention power of the drugs in a randomized, controlled clinical trial.

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 LowSALT CKD study represents the first blinded randomized controlled trial comparing a high vs low salt intake in people with CKD.

The study is the first randomized, controlled trial to test whether group classes are a good way to train parents on using an autism therapy.

A Phase 3 Open - Label Randomized Study of Quizartinib (AC220) Monotherapy Versus Salvage Chemotherapy in Subjects with FLT3 - ITD Positive Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Refractory To or Relapsed After First - line Treatment With or Without Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) Consolidation

In the $ 1.47 million, four - year grant called â $ œBiomarkers of Ischemic Outcomes in Intracranial Stenosisâ $ (BIOSIS), Emory researchers are analyzing blood samples from 451 patients from around the country who were enrolled in a study known as SAMMPRIS (Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent stroke in Intracranial Stenosis), the first randomized, multicenter clinical trial designed to test whether stenting intracranial arteries would prevent recurrent stroke.

A Randomized, Double - Blinded, Phase II Study of Maintenance Pembrolizumab versus Placebo after First - line Chemotherapy in Patients with Metastatic Urothelial Cancer

[35] The first randomized, controlled study of DBS for the treatment of TRD targeting the ventral capsule / ventral striatum area did not demonstrate a significant difference in response rates between the active and sham groups at the end of a 16 - week study.

REVEAL - SCAN: Risk Evaluation and and Education of Alzheimer's Disease - the Study of Communicating Amyloid Neuroimaging (RF1 AG047866) is the first multi-site, randomized clinical trial to examine the impact of learning amyloid imaging results in cognitively normal individuals, and its goal is to answer these questions.

The drug, a monoclonal antibody called ipilimumab, is the first treatment of any kind ever shown in a large, randomized phase III clinical study (study MDX010 - 20) to improve overall survival in patients with metastatic melanoma who no longer respond to standard therapy.

The LEAP study, designed and conducted by the ITN with additional support from FARE and led by Professor Gideon Lack at Kings College London, is the first randomized trial to prevent food allergy in a large cohort of high - risk infants.

«In the study, investigators randomized 40 newly diagnose NSCLC patients to receive either fish oil (EPA 2.2 g / day) or standard care (no intervention; n = 24) while undergoing first - line chemotherapy for 10 weeks.The investigator found that about 69 % of the patients who took fish oil gained or maintained muscle mass.

This is the first study to actually measure the BPA levels in urine using randomized participants eating food that was either canned or fresh.

The new SMILES trial was presented at the conference: the first randomized controlled diet depression study where ONE THIRD of the dietary intervention group saw improvements in their depression and anxiety symptoms by switching from processed / junk food to real food with no specific dietary restrictions.

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

The first ever conducted Bayesian study nf the effects of diet therapy on weight loss (Sackner - Bernstein, Kanter, Kaul), published in October of 2015 evaluated data from 17 randomized controlled trials of 1,797 people who were obese and overweight.

This study is one of the first randomized, controlled trials to look at the specific mechanisms related to change in PTSD symptoms that might be positively impacted by yoga practices.

At first blush, the most rigorous methodology, randomized field trials (RFT), appears not to fare well, since few such studies made the list.

Matthew Chingos and I have just released a study that for the first time makes use of data from a randomized field trial to identify the impact of school vouchers on college enrollments.

First, quality studies in education (large sample sizes, randomized, cross-over design, longitudinal, etc.) are very expensive and rare.

In this randomized trial of a reading intervention, we study a scaffolded sequence of implementation in which schools first develop proficiency by implementing the program with fidelity before implementing structured adaptations.

Randomized field trials were used to examine the impact of the Teacher Study Group (TSG), a professional development model, on first grade teachers» reading comprehension and vocabulary instruction, their knowledge of these areas, and on the comprehension and vocabulary achievement of their students.

A study by Jay P. Greene, Brian Kisida and Daniel H. Bowen, «The Educational Value of Field Trips,» was the first large - scale randomized - control trial designed to measure what students learn from school tours of an art museum.

This study (the first with the 2011 edition of the Second Step program) conducted a randomized controlled trial over a 1 - year period with 7300 students and 321 teachers in 61 schools across six school districts, from kindergarten to second grade.

A separate RAND study, the nation's first randomized experiment to test teacher incentive pay, also found that students of the teachers who were eligible to earn bonuses did not outperform the students whose teachers were not eligible for bonuses.

This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the distributional effects of Head Start, using the first national randomized experiment of the Head Start program (the Head Start Impact

The first randomized experimental study of Head Start, the National Head Start Impact study of Head Start, the National Head Start Impact StudyStudy

Also unmentioned is that this study was the first report — ever — using a randomized control trial that found negative effects for students using vouchers.

During the first four years of the CREATE study, researchers developed individual interventions and tested them in tightly controlled experiments and randomized field trials with classroom teachers in the middle grades.