Sentences with phrase «inactive placebo»

Millions of women stopped using the hormones after a large U.S. government study in 2002 found that postmenopausal women given HRT had higher risks of heart attack, stroke, breast cancer and blood clots than women given an inactive placebo.

The men and women were randomly assigned to one of four treatment strategies for one year: continue taking donepezil; stop taking donepezil and start taking an inactive placebo; substitute memantine for donepezil, or continue taking donepezil and memantine together.

For example, people who were taking only an inactive placebo were more likely than patients in other groups to drop out of study, suggesting these families had noticed the placebo «medication» wasn't working.

The researchers found that acetaminophen was slightly better than an inactive placebo.

I don't take the inactive placebo pills in my birth control pack; instead, I start a new pack.

Another 1,250 are getting an inactive placebo.

The overall risk of nausea and vomiting within 24 hours was about 60 percent lower with gabapentin, compared to inactive placebo (or other treatments).

Not exact matches

When you're on the pill, and you have a few days during the month when you're taking the inactive (or placebo) pills, you might experience some bleeding and cramping.

The others, she said, would get a placebo — an inactive pill that looked just like their usual drug.

Patients taking part in the study will receive either Genistein Aglycone or placebo (an inactive substance that looks like the treatment) with food, over a period of 12 months.

They gave the placebo group a pill they claimed to be an expensive, over-the-counter painkiller, when in fact it was inactive.

«The results from our study show that all exercise doses, irrespective of volume or intensity, were efficacious in reducing liver fat and visceral fat by an amount that was clinically significant, in previously inactive, overweight, or obese adults compared with placebo.

The control may be an inactive substance (placebo) or some other vaccine product.

In many trials, some participants are randomly assigned to the «control» group and receive an inactive «placebo» treatment or a standard intervention currently in use; sometimes the control subjects are later given a chance to try the experimental treatment.

The data from the double - blind clinical trial showed that subjects who took ClariMem ® as directed for 12 weeks displayed a statistically significant improvement in overall cognitive ability compared to subjects who took a placebo (inactive sugar pill).

In a research conducted for Align probiotic supplements, it was discovered that there's no major difference between placebo (inactive sugar pill substance) and the product.

For many of the therapies in figure 2, the types of inactive comparators varied and involved different magnitudes of placebo effects.

Sixteen systematic reviews provided data on 17 comparisons with inactive interventions (placebo, sham interventions or waiting list).30 — 32 35 — 37 39 — 43 45 — 50 figure 2 provides an overview of treatment effects of non-pharmacological and common pharmacological treatments for MDD when compared with inactive interventions using standardised mean differences.

The comparison group consisted mainly of interventions that were designed either to be inactive or to be an attention placebo.

Most of these interventions were designed either to be inactive (such as waiting list) or to be an attention placebo (for example, relaxation training, art exercises).

This pill, a combination of estrogen and progestin, is taken daily for 84 days followed by one week of inactive (placebo) pills, allowing a woman to have her period once every three months — four times per year.