Sentences with phrase «half year study period»

Perth's small business count rose by 0.5 per cent over the five year study period, but the number of small businesses in the rest of the state fell by 1.5 per cent.

During this 19 - year study period, an estimated 181,654 (95 % confidence interval [CI], 148,548 — 214,761) children younger than 2 years were treated.

Over the two year study period, both circumcised and uncircumcised men engaged in similar amounts of sexual activity.

In the New Zealand Study, during its 3 - year study period, the rate of late stillbirth was 3.09 / 1000.

It will enroll an estimated 25,000 male and female NCAA student - athletes during a three - year study period.

Researchers looked at data on 74 300 patient who received metformin and sulfonylurea, another common diabetes drug, over a 25 - year study period.

In the five - year study period, plant survival and growth rates were low in the southern edges of the plant's geographic range — in California near the Mexican border — but flowering rates were high.

Of course, as the children grew over the five - year study period, their BMIs increased from an average of 16.8 to 19.4 kilograms per square meter.

Over the 15 - year study period, there were 1473 pregnancies, 118 (8 %) of which resulted in live births; of those, 11 (9 %) were identified as having congenital abnormalities.

In a typical urban area with a high level of background air pollution — for example, around 15 micrograms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) per cubic metre, or a nitrogen dioxide concentration around 33 micrograms per cubic metre — an extra 300 trees per square kilometre was associated with around 50 fewer emergency asthma cases per 100,000 residents over the 15 year study period.

The researchers also discovered increased use of these medications among boys, white children and those without private health insurance during the 16 - year study period, 1994 - 2009.

Using the model, McHale and Baker could work out the most likely outcome of any English football match played over the 124 year study period — and use the results to calculate which was the all - time greatest team.

The analysis by researchers at UC San Francisco, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley found that discrimination reported by Black patients declined significantly over the six - year study period, reducing the difference between Blacks and Whites from 8.2 percent to 2.5 percent.

In a study of 423 older couples, University of Michigan researchers found that those who reported providing no help to others were more than twice as likely to die during the five - year study period than those who reported helping others.

Through analysis of high - resolution anatomical magnetic resonance imaging of brain volumes, taken three times over the two - year study period, the researchers were able to determine that individuals with MCI or Alzheimer's showed greater losses in gray matter volume in both the basal forebrain and temporal lobe, compared with cognitively normal controls.

Researchers recorded more than 600 total bleaching incidents and about 300 severe events over the 36 - year study period (red lines).

Men who ate spicy food at least once a week were 10 percent less likely to die during the seven - year study period than were those with a more bland diet.

The analysis showed that 1.4 % of all ART pregnancies over the 12 - year study period were ectopic.

During the one - year study period, the students were assessed for a range of outcomes, including sexual health attitudes, knowledge, intention to initiate sex, and sexual activity.

During the four year study period, just under 284,000 cases of hearing loss were registered on the database, slightly more of them among men than women, overall.

The overall increase amounted to 142 additional deaths over the 25 - year study period.

The survey was initially completed by 3000 people annually, but that rose to 60,000 per year by the end of the 25 - year study period.

In their analysis, the authors found the following over the ten - year study period:

The researchers found that during the 3 - year study period, 1496 people were victims of homicide, and 6 % (90) of them had been under the care of mental health services in the year before their death.

They estimated that, for each step - by - step increase in the women's consumption of red meat, there was a step - by - step increase in the risk of getting breast cancer over the 20 year study period.

The authors, who also include center colleagues Yu Bai, Helen F. Ladd and Clara Muschkin, found the state's investment in both programs totaled an average of $ 2,200 per child during the 13 - year study period.

Over the 10 - year study period, the match rate ranged from 11.2 percent in 2003 - 2004 and 22 percent the next year, to 100 percent in the first two study years and in the last one.

The researchers» analysis revealed that opioid - related ICU admissions increased an average of more than half a percent each year over the seven - year study period and that patients admitted to ICUs as a result of overdose required increasingly intensive care, including high - cost renal replacement therapy or dialysis.

In total, the researchers identified 4,557 SCAs in Portland during the 13 - year study period.

The researchers compiled urban development, flood hazard and census data and overlaid it on a map of the U.S.. Although their analysis shows that Americans in general have become more aware of the risk of floods over the 10 - year study period, the researchers identified several U.S. hot spots where urban development has grown in coastal flood zones including New York City and Miami.

Compared to people taking another class of diabetes medications called sulfonylureas, those taking metformin had a 20 percent reduced risk of developing dementia over the five - year study period.

Over the 12 - year study period, the proportion of infants who survived but were found to have cognitive and motor impairment at 18 to 22 months stayed about the same (about 14 to 16 percent).

Greater odds of the prevalence of having a chronic condition during any part of the 6 - year study period were found among black children (46.6 %; 95 % CI, 43.6 % -49.7 %) and Hispanic children (42.3 %; 95 % CI, 38.4 % -46.3 %) compared with non-Hispanic white children (36.8 %; 95 % CI, 34.7 % -38.9 %)(adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 1.60; 95 % CI, 1.35 - 1.90, and AOR, 1.36; 95 % CI, 1.11 - 1.67, respectively)(Table 3).

The prevalence of any chronic condition during any part of the 6 - year study period was associated with male sex, minority race / ethnicity, and maternal obesity.

During our 4 year study period, we recorded the mortality of 4 adult snow leopards, all of which were males.

This study is notable for its rigor, examining six issues a year for all selected journals throughout the 20 year study period and using online searches of authors to identify gender in those with ambiguous names.

Thirteen percent of the participants with an anxiety disorder who reported self - medicating with alcohol developed an alcohol problem over the three - year study period, compared with just 5 % of those who did not self - medicate.

Another study by Penn State University researchers found that over a six - year study period, women eating a low energy - density diet gained about five pounds over six years, while those eating the higher energy - density diet gained 14 pounds — nearly three times as much weight!

More than 71 percent of these patients had been prescribed a beta blocker, and the use of beta blockers for angioplasty patients increased during the eight - year study period, Parikh said.

Children with stressed - out parents who lived around high levels of traffic - related pollution were at a higher risk of developing asthma during the three - year study period than children without stressed parents.

A large study of 24,000 men and women aged 35 — 64 years published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in 2012 found that those who used calcium supplements had a 139 % greater risk of heart attack during the 11 - year study period, while intake of calcium from food did not increase the risk.

Their study involved 854 men who had died from a heart attack between ages 50 and 69 years and 989 age - matched controls who died from cancer during the seven - year study period.

Compared to placebo, in terms of the percentage number of people developing diabetes within the four - year study period, fewer people in the drug group developed diabetes.

In the study, dietary fiber reduced the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, infectious and respiratory disease over the nine - year study period by 24 to 56 percent for men, and 34 to 59 percent for women.

Over the 13 - year study period, 4 out of 10 women became overweight or obese.

Another study in 14,001 elderly Japanese individuals aged found that those who drank the most green tea were 76 % less likely to die during the 6 year study period (56).

The data comprise 102,616,862 individual searches that contain more than three million different search terms over the almost four - year study period, with the number of searches increasing rapidly each year (see Figure 1).

Three of the four districts changed school superintendents in the four - year study period, and the fourth nearly did so - a high level of turnover for rural districts.

The researchers said there are limitations to the findings: The data is based on schools» self - reporting, which leaves room for error, and many schools have opened and closed during the five - year study period, yielding some data inconsistencies.

Over the two - year study period, SIG scores improved 5 percentage points in both categories while the improvement among all other schools was 3 percent in reading and 2 percent in math.