Sentences with phrase «from previous studies conducted»

The study pooled data from previous studies conducted at 23 sites across the northeastern U.S.

A study of Chinese adults in Singapore suggests the prevalence of glaucoma, a disease of the eye that can result in blindness, was 3.2 percent, with no difference from a previous study conducted in 1997, according to a study...

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As an example, they cited outside research and «early evidence» from a previous study Matias conducted on Internet messaging board Reddit that involved showing readers of Reddit's «r / science» forum rules for commenting.

«According to other studies conducted by Pew in recent years, nearly a third of all millennials — Americans between the ages of 18 - 33 — are religiously unaffiliated, a dramatic and ongoing change from previous generations.»

«This study adds to previous research conducted in smaller sample groups that also showed this approach does not increase the risk of a baby choking, and indeed in the UK, supports the Department of Health recommendation that babies can have finger foods from six months old.»

This cross-sectional study was to assess the relationship between RA, breastfeeding, and also use of oral contraceptives, in a population of older women from South China, where cultural habits differ from those in the West, where most previous studies were conducted.

The Justice for All (J4A), a civil society group, disclosed on Wednesday that in a recent independent study it conducted, it concluded that the Nigeria Police Force, in recent times, performed satisfactorily in the handling of sexual assault cases against women and minors, which is a complete departure from previous low ratings.

Previous studies of their effectiveness in patients with end - stage renal disease produced mixed results, leading researchers to conduct the review of records of all U.S. patients who had initiated peritoneal dialysis from 2007 to 2011.

To examine the potential emergent effects of educational interventions, Powers and colleagues analyzed data from two previous intervention studies conducted with 7th graders.

We conducted a very extensive study which confirms similar conclusions from previous, smaller studies.»

The findings might have departed from prior studies because of the difference in size and study design, he said, explaining that much of the previous work in this area has been conducted in groups of 100 or fewer and mostly involved student subjects.

The previous studies, however, were retrospective (relying on participants» recall), did not focus exclusively on ADHD (included other conduct disorders) or compared only men suffering from adult ADHD with those having remitted childhood ADHD, rather than to controls without ADHD.

Previous studies have reported that trap - jaw ants sometimes jump with their jaws, «but it was unknown whether this behavior was meant to help them get away from a predator, and it wasn't clear that it actually improved their odds of surviving an encounter with a predator,» said University of Illinois graduate student Fredrick Larabee, who conducted the study with entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez.

Previous in vitro studies conducted by researchers in other countries showed that this molecule was able to reduce the multiplication and increase the mortality of cells from melanoma, the most aggressive type of skin cancer, as well as breast cancer and neuroblastoma, a tumor that typically affects patients aged 15 or younger.

Porpino analyzed previous research findings from 24 peer - reviewed papers, and empirical data from a study conducted in households in the US and Brazil.

The teenagers with conduct disorder struggled to recognize anger, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise in facial expressions, in line with findings from previous studies.

Previous genetic studies have examined the association of aspirin, NSAIDs, or both with colorectal cancer according to a limited number of candidate genes or pathways.6 - 10 Thus, to comprehensively identify common genetic markers that characterize individuals who may obtain differential benefit from aspirin and NSAIDs, we conducted a discovery - based, genome - wide analysis of gene × environment interactions between regular use of aspirin, NSAIDs, or both and single - nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in relation to risk of colorectal cancer.

While previous studies have used fMRI or EEG to detect this sort of «covert consciousness» in patients who have moved from acute - care hospitals to rehabilitation or nursing care facilities, no such study had previously been conducted in ICU patients.

Previous genome - wide association studies (GWAS) by the group have identified new genetic risk factors for the higher rates of asthma and poor response to bronchodilator medications seen in these minority populations — in many cases different from risk factors seen in prior studies conducted in European Americans.

Seek legislation to impose a federal moratorium on new uranium development until environmental pollution from previous mining and milling is cleaned up, workers are appropriately compensated, and community health studies conducted.

Previous work by the NC3Rs showed that many publications reporting publicly funded animal research from the UK and US lacked key information on how the study was designed, conducted and analysed, which could limit their value in informing future scientific studies and policy.

Also, the previous study was conducted with cumulus - oocyte - complexes from small antral follicles without hormone stimulation, which may dramatically change the mRNA expression profiles compared to those undergoing hormone stimulation.

This review updates a previous review conducted in 1999, along with data from a number of new studies.

By conducting a meta - analysis, an analysis of previous conducted studies, the researchers were able to compare results from a variety of studies and discern larger trends across studies.

From the study: «In contrast to our previous studies conducted among men with prostate cancer and those with abnormal biopsies that showed high grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia or foci of atypical cells (5,6), we did not observe differences in PSA change between the study arms.

A survey conducted amongst existing and previous LIYSF students, found that 90 % of the 406 respondents agreed that the idea of studying in the UK was an exciting or attractive prospect, however 38 % also admitted that the departure of the UK from the European Union would dissuade them from studying or working here.

Earlier this year, a study conducted by the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention revealed that more than 44 percent of dogs are overweight or obese — a 1 percent increase from the previous year.

Recently - released data from the National Crime Victimization Survey's School Crime Supplement shows that the percent of students who said they were bullied in 2013 declined to 21.8 (from an average of 29.3 % in the four previous biennial studies conducted between 2005 to 2011).

The results of this study indicate that parental encouragement to be physically active can predict adolescents» physical activity habits, supporting previous evidence from the cross-sectional literature [8 — 12], including the review of correlates of physical activity among adolescents conducted by Sallis, et al. [8], and providing additional evidence to support Dowda, et al.'s recent findings that these may be lasting, long - term effects [13].

Although previous reports may have over estimated our ability to identify such children, Bennett et al summarise information only from studies of population based samples where follow up assessments were conducted over time.

So, contrary to our expectation and previous developmental data (see Kimonis et al., 2012 — however, compared to our study, these authors focused on male adolescents with combined anxiety and conduct disorder and used emotionally distressing pictures from IAPS, instead of faces), the presence of CU traits in combination with higher anxiety was not associated with greater orientation toward distress stimuli, such as fearful faces.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.

In the previous study, adult antisocial behavior was diagnosed separately from child conduct disorder, which was the least informative disorder with regard to underlying externalizing liability.

This finding is consistent with previous studies on depression socialization in adolescent dyadic friendships (e.g., Stevens and Prinstein 2005) and replicates a study conducted with a sample of adolescents from a different population (Giletta et al. 2011), in which female but not male adolescents were shown to be affected by their best friends» depressive symptoms over time.

As pointed out in the previous section, the results from several large prospective studies indicate that being victim of aggression from others is a risk factor for the development of both emotional problems and conduct problems.

The finding that female adolescents with conduct problems express higher rates of post-trauma symptoms concurs with results from previous studies on this topic (e.g. [18 — 20]-RRB-.

Economic evaluations conducted using a modelling approach, whereby effectiveness data were collected from one or more previous controlled studies and then combined with data on costs, were also included.