Sentences with phrase «healthy control participants»

Healthy control participants were recruited from mainstream schools and colleges.

Within this consortium, she has conducted genome - wide association scans for over 75,000 participants and has undertaken one of the first large - scale whole - genome sequencing studies for colorectal cancer, sequencing the whole genomes of 2,000 patients with colorectal cancer and 1,000 healthy control participants.

We also performed a control study with 35 age and gender - matched healthy control participants (HC) who performed the assessments for 6 weeks.

Leow and her colleagues explored differences and similarities in brain connectivity patterns in 24 weight - restored individuals with anorexia nervosa (participants met all criteria for anorexia except for amenorrhea and all had body mass indices (BMI) of 18.5 or higher), 29 participants with body dysmorphic disorder, and 31 healthy control participants.

Women with epilepsy and healthy control participants who were between the ages of 18 and 41 seeking pregnancy and less than six months removed from contraception were followed throughout the duration of their pregnancy.

Not exact matches

Compared with the TL system, participants using the M - % DI system were five times less likely to be able to identify the healthier food items (OR = 0.2; 95 % CI 0.1 — 0.5), and those using the CC - % DI system were three times less likely to be able to identify the healthier products (OR = 0.3; 95 % CI 0.1 — 0.9), after controlling for gender, age, education level and household income (Table 2).

Dr Jaeger and Dr Wilson recruited 24 healthy, college - aged, resistance - trained participants with an average age of 21 to participate in their double - blind, placebo - controlled clinical trial.

In the study, Dr. Barber and colleagues analyzed brain imaging data from the Human Connectome Project of 76 otherwise healthy participants reporting PLEs and 153 control participants.

Participants, average age 66, were randomly assigned to one of three diets for a year: a traditional Mediterranean diet enriched with virgin olive oil (about 4 tablespoons) each day, a traditional Mediterranean diet enriched with extra nuts (about a fistful) each day, or a healthy «control» diet that reduced consumption of red meat, processed food, high - fat dairy products and sweets.

The current study enrolled 161 participants — 100 with end - stage kidney disease, all of whom were dialysis dependent; 36 with chronic disease not yet at the end stage, and 25 healthy controls.

This area of the insula is likely involved in cognitive control and salience, meaning that participants were paying more attention to food choices and selecting the less desirable or healthier options over the highly desirable or less healthy options.

Their study included 111 participants, of whom 57 were recurrent kidney stone formers and 54 were healthy controls.

Among the Japanese participants, the risk gene variant had a similar frequency in centenarians (46.4 %) and in healthy controls (47.3 %), but it was less frequent than in controls performed with cardiovascular disease (57.2 %).

Demographics, clinical characteristics, and personality scores (positive emotionality, negative emotionality, and constraint) of participants, and the significance for the comparisons between healthy controls and marijuana abusers

Researchers administered the Frontal Systems Behavior Scale and neuropsychological tests to 33 participants (age 18 - 60 y) one - year post TBI and 19 healthy controls.

In this study, 9 healthy controls were compared with 18 participants with relapsing - remitting MS and normal visual acuity.

This study will assess the immediate effects of locomotor training with the SAFE Orthosis in three ambulatory stroke participants and three age - matched healthy controls.

We found no evidence of infection with XMRV among persons with CFS or matched healthy controls from the US by testing with multiple serologic and PCR assays performed independently in three laboratories blinded to the clinical status of the study participants.

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

Participants were divided into four groups: those diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's when entering the study, healthy controls with no sign of dementia, individuals with mild cognitive impairment that remained stable over the two to three years for which scans were available, and those with mild cognitive impairment that progressed to Alzheimer's disease during the study.

The study involved 25 adult participants with a healthy BMI (Body - Mass Index) aged between 20 and 30, in which their food intake was strictly controlled.

In one study, detailed in the Sept. 12 issue of the journal Neurology, researchers compared the brain scans of 120 people belonging to three groups: 40 of the participants had mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a transition stage between normal aging and the more serious memory problems associated with Alzheimer's disease; 40 complained of significant memory problems but did not have MCI and 40 were healthy controls.

Twenty - four healthy, sedentary participants (14 men and 10 women), between 18 and 40 years, were randomly assigned to 1 of the following 2 groups: control group (CG) or abdominal exercise group (AG).

Twenty - five of these participants were teens who showed «healthy controls», and not diagnosed with conduct disorder.

Participants 27 patients with relapsing — remitting multiple sclerosis and 27 sex - matched, age - matched and education - matched healthy controls.

Bio-behavioral Markers of Bipolar Conversion Currently enrolling healthy control young adults 18 - 25 years old.This study (< 6 hours) involves interviews, IQ tests, special computer games, genetic sample, and MRI brain scan.For all studies, participants are compensated for their time.

Study participants were mother - child dyads who had been screened as part of the Thinking Healthy Programme (THP) randomised controlled trial.3 Of 705 participating mother — child dyads interviewed at the end of the THP study, 584 (83 %) dyads were enrolled.

Basset et al21 studied 29 BD participants who had been well for at least the last 3 months and compared linear time and frequency domain measures of HRV to 41 participants with major depressive disorder and 38 healthy controls during sleep.

Comparing the two depressed groups to the healthy controls, features indicative of parasympathetic activity were significantly lower in both groups compared with healthy controls, whereas features supposedly related to sympathetic activity were significantly higher in bipolar depression than in healthy controls, but U participants and healthy controls showed no difference in these features.

Here, the emotional responses of 23 BD participants were compared with that of 24 healthy controls after various stimuli; the study found greater HRV in the BD group after the stimuli through an increase in measures related to parasympathetic activity.16 More recently, in 2015, Voggt et al investigated HRV features in 90 euthymic bipolar patients compared with 62 healthy controls.

Furthermore, a study investigating parasympathetic and sympathetic activity through the use of RSA in 12 patients with BPD and 28 healthy controls had ECG recorded for three 5 min stages (at rest or stressed) found BPD was associated with lower values of RSA suggesting increased levels of sympathetic activity and decreased levels of parasympathetic activity.33 Meyer et al recorded 5 min ECG signals on 27 participants with BPD, 23 in remission from BPD, 18 suffering from PTSD and 23 healthy controls.34 Significant differences were only found between PTSD participants and controls; however, BPD participants had reduced variability across linear time and frequency domain measures compared with controls.

Healthy control scores were obtained from the study by Salkovskis et al24 and baseline scores of participants of this study were used as a reference for the clinical population.

Compared to LD, HD participants reported significantly greater shame proneness, poorer functioning on emotion regulation competencies (emotional control, self - awareness and situational responsiveness), less healthy emotion regulation strategy use (less reappraisal and greater suppression), and lower levels of guilt proneness.

Accordingly, the relatively large sample size enabled us to systematically investigate the impact of callous - unemotional traits in our CD sample (with 18 CD / CU + and 17 CD / CU - participants), and also contrast each of these groups with a relatively large group of healthy controls (n = 32).

This left 33 CD participants and 29 healthy controls with usable data.

In terms of strengths, the present study has a fairly large sample size (37 CD participants and 35 healthy controls) compared to other DTI studies published within the literature on CD (Waller et al. 2017).