Sentences with phrase «large review study»

The relationship between too much salt intake and cardiovascular disease was confirmed in a large review study published in the «British Medical Journal» in 2009, in which more than 177,000 human subjects were evaluated for their salt intake and incidence of heart disease and stroke.

One large review study published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology [5] found that Hass consumption significantly reduced all indices of cholesterol including LDLs and triglycerides — the most abundant type of body fat.

A very large review study found that psyllium and guar gum (both soluble, viscous fibers) are ineffective as weight loss supplements (26).

In a large review study on over 1,000 people with obesity who followed a low - carb diet, the average weight loss was about 15 pounds for people followed between three and six months after beginning the diet.

In fact, one large review study concluded that 111 circumcisions would be needed to prevent one UTI.

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For a Harvard Business Review study, three consultants examined the Outlook calendars of multiple workers at a large company and found that one weekly executive meeting consumed 300,000 hours each year.

In a large review of studies published in the Journal of Nutrition, Purdue University scientists found that whole tree nuts and peanuts have roughly 15 % fewer calories than the figure calculated using the Atwater method.

Several large, recent, peer - reviewed studies have suggested a fascinating but seemingly counterintuitive idea: That the amount of fat you eat may not be as directly linked with how fat you are as we once thought.

The survey is part of a larger study conducted by the Princeton Review, a Massachusetts - based educational services company, for its new book, «The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 edition.»

In terms of own price elasticity values, a recent meta - analysis estimated an average own price effect for carbonated sugar sweetened drinks (a near equivalent of the category non-concentrated sugar sweetened drinks, which predominantly includes carbonated drinks) of − 0.93, larger than our value of − 0.81.51 Our estimated value is also at the lower end of the range of own price elasticities frequently cited for sugar sweetened drinks of − 0.8 to − 1.0, based on one large review.52 Our own price estimate is comparable to experimental data (a 25 % reduction for a 35 % price rise) in a canteen study.53 However, all these estimates may be influenced by US studies in which higher estimates may reflect higher levels of consumption.

Finally, we have reviewed a large - scale study on high blood pressure showing an association between high levels of protein intake (in the vicinity of 100 grams per day) and significantly decreased risk of high blood pressure over an 11 - year period of time.

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One the largest analysis of the peer - reviewed literature was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2010, and this meta - analysis looked at almost 350,000 studies published on saturated fats, and concluded:

One review published in 2004 indicated a negative correlation between suicide rates and caffeine, but this effect has not been confirmed in larger studies.

Last week, we posted to the site a group of four articles about a peer - reviewed study in the Journal of Neurosurgery showing that football helmet design affected concussion risk among a large group (or what scientists call a «cohort») of college football players.

With absolutely no indication about the quality of the studies (and methods used) in each individual study, readers have no way of assessing the quality of the larger systematic review.

Rixa Freeze PhD asks in her 2010 article published within Expert Reviews Obstetrics & Gynecology, «Could a series of large, well - designed studies finally heal the rift between advocates and opponents?

The most recent Cochrane review did note a trend towards improvement and recommended more and larger studies.

By the way, a great book by another skeptical OBGYN is called «Born in the USA» only he's skeptical of medicalized birth because he's a clinical scientist as well, unlike our author here and he's realized that home birth is safer than hospital birth according to peer - reviewed large scale studies.

An UpToDate review on «Planned home birth» (Declercq and Stotland, 2015) stated that «Large cohort studies using intent - to - treat analysis of midwife - attended, planned, out - of - hospital birth of low - risk women in developed countries have reported reduced rates of cesarean birth, perineal lacerations, and medical interventions, and similar rates of maternal and early perinatal morbidity and mortality compared to planned hospital birth.

This meta - analysis makes a significant contribution to the available evidence on this topic because it includes 6 original studies on the subject not included in previous meta - analyses.38 - 43 Moreover, to our knowledge, this is significantly the largest and most up - to - date review and analysis of current knowledge on childhood leukemia and breastfeeding.

In addition, there was no effect on breastfeeding duration when the pacifier was introduced at 1 month of age.280 A more recent systematic review found that the highest level of evidence (ie, from clinical trials) does not support an adverse relationship between pacifier use and breastfeeding duration or exclusivity.281 The association between shortened duration of breastfeeding and pacifier use in observational studies likely reflects a number of complex factors such as breastfeeding difficulties or intent to wean.281 A large multicenter, randomized controlled trial of 1021 mothers who were highly motivated to breastfeed were assigned to 2 groups: mothers advised to offer a pacifier after 15 days and mothers advised not to offer a pacifier.

A large analysis reviewed all pertinent studies of protein levels in preterm formulas through 2006.

A larger number of published studies relating infant feeding to adult cholesterol concentrations were available for the present review than had been available at the time of our previous review (17 compared with 5)(10).

A new peer - reviewed study discredits findings of controversial research claiming that higher concentrations of dissolved methane in domestic water wells can be associated with proximity to nearby gas - producing wells in northeastern Pennsylvania — and it does so using a much larger sampling size and pre-drill baselines.

Commenting on the publication of the 26th Report of the School Teachers» Review Body for England and Wales, and the Government's acceptance of all its recommendations, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT the largest teachers» union in the UK, said «We welcome the Report of the independent pay Review Body in studying the evidence on the impact of pay on teacher recruitment and retention.

They reviewed CT scans to assess how much abdominal fat had accumulated, its location and it's density in 1,106 participants from the Framingham Heart Study who received this imaging as part of a larger study to measure coronary and abdominal aortic calcificaStudy who received this imaging as part of a larger study to measure coronary and abdominal aortic calcificastudy to measure coronary and abdominal aortic calcification.

Lighting the way to new solar panels Another study, published last week in the journal Physical Review Letters, presented a light - emitting device that punches well above its weight, making it appear 10,000 times larger than its physical size.

The tool, developed by these UC3M researchers, baptized DENDROID and detailed in a study published in the review Expert Systems with Applications, allows security analysts to scrutinize a large quantity of apps to determine the origins of a malware sample and the family to which it belongs.

Only one country had implemented standardized packaging at the time of this review, so evidence that tobacco use prevalence may have decreased following standardized packaging comes from one large observational study.

A 4 - year study by professor Leslie Perlow and research associate Jessica Porter, both of the Harvard Business School, published in the October issue of Harvard Business Review, demonstrates that time off can have a larger, positive effect on individual and organizational productivity than more hours on the job.

Published in Physical Review Letters, the study «provides the most precise estimate of the mass of the Higgs boson yet known and is the result of collaboration between two teams that operate detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Europe's particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland.»

They also note that, although a large number of studies were reviewed; many more were excluded because they were not specifically focused on gender differences in facial recognition.

In what is considered the largest statistical review of published computerized concussion testing to date, covering 37 studies and 3,960 participants all within the first week of sustaining a concussion, he and his co-authors — who include Pitt's Dr. Kontos — produced two key findings:

One study mentioned in the WSU review demonstrates how drought, hunting and habitat competition among growing populations in Egypt led to the extinction of many large - bodied mammals around 3,000 B.C..

Aggressive treatment of high blood pressure comes with risks, and the study, a large clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, has not yet been peer - reviewed or published.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

Harris cited other examples of concern — a review of 100 studies in the field of psychology in which the findings in only about a third of the studies were reproducible; an effort by scientists at Bayer, another large drug company, that managed to reproduce the findings of only one - quarter of the studies under review; a just - published review of 25 historical candidate genes for schizophrenia which found no evidence that the candidate genes are more associated with the disease than other genes.

Weissman says that most clinical studies of stem cells fail to meet what he sees as key criteria: They should be based on clear, peer - reviewed demonstrations of tissue regeneration, replicated by a large number of independent groups that provide rapid, long - lasting benefits.

Experts have called for large - scale studies into altering the make - up of bacteria in the gut, after a review showed that this might reduce the symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

«Income inequality has an effect only half as large among childless folks,» said Owens, whose study will be published online on April 27 and in the June print edition of the American Sociological Review.

The study — a systematic review and meta - analysis of published data — is the largest to quantify whether e-cigarettes assist smokers in quitting cigarettes.

A review of large - scale studies involving more than 1.5 million people found all - cause mortality is higher for those who eat meat, particularly red or processed meat, on a daily basis.

Lee and Moher suggest that large experimental studies are needed to judge the effectiveness of different web - based peer review templates to enforce reporting standards, and of ways one might train authors, reviewers and editors to use such tools and evaluate research.

In a review of existing literature, Marteau did find descriptions of nudging being used to improve health behaviors — one study reports a 70 % increase in the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectiveness.

(The projects had been funded by NIH's four largest institutes and reviewed by its three largest study sections.)

In the first of the two studies, the research team reviewed published analyses of specialty drug cost - sharing, specifically for the three conditions that attract the largest proportion of specialty drug spending: rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and multiple sclerosis.

These findings are generally consistent with those from recent systematic reviews, some of which also included trials of statins for secondary prevention.47,51 - 53 Similar to other meta - analyses of primary and secondary prevention trials, 54,55 this review found no association between use of statins and increased risk of muscle - related harms, although some observational studies and randomized rechallenge trials found statins associated with increased risk of myopathy or joint - related symptoms.56 - 58 The large HOPE - 3 trial found statins associated with increased risk of cataract surgery, an unanticipated finding.14 No other trial of statins for primary prevention evaluated risk of cataracts or cataract surgery.

She is the principal investigator on several large research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health to study the end - stages of dementia and has been a lead author on many articles in top peer - reviewed journals related to this topic.

The authors concluded that although the studies included in this review provided important information, double - blinded, sham - controlled phase II and phase III clinical trials with larger sample sizes are needed to validate this novel therapeutic approach.