Sentences with phrase «large scale studies showed»

However, storm clouds soon appeared on the horizon when four large scale studies showed increased breast cancer and heart disease from this estrogen - progestin combination pill.

A large scale study shows that women who breastfeed their infants are less likely to neglect them.

Large scale studies show score increases of 38 - 50 points on SAT in verbal and math.

Fact: «Large scale studies show that sexual abuse allegations occur in only 2 percent of all disputed custody and access cases.

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While the new mid-stage study results from DNDi were impressive (they showed cure rates of 96 % to 97 % even for the sickest patients and those with liver scarring), more late - stage trials will be necessary before the drug is available on a large scale in the developing world.

A large - scale international study on financial topics shows American teens have quite a bit of catching up to do.

Most large scale studies looking at cancer rates don't show changes related to cell phone use.

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.

The most recent findings of the Belarus study (an excellent, large scale, randomized, first world study) were recently published and show that 11 year - olds have a 17 % GREATER chance of being obese or overweight if they were in the breastfeeding group than in the control group.

Co-author of the study Mary Renfrew, Professor of Mother and Infant Health at the University of Dundee, said: «This is the first large - scale study to show an increase in breastfeeding in communities where rates have been low for generations, and where it can be particularly difficult for women to breastfeed without strong family and community support, because of strong societal barriers.

The most recent large scale study comparing outcomes for mother and baby reported in the British Medical Journal last month showed that for women who had previously given birth, adverse outcomes were less common among planned home births (1 per 1,000) than among planned hospital births (2.3 per 1,000).

«Protein in breast milk reduces infection risk in premature infants: Study shows need for large - scale trial of lactoferrin's role in immune system development.»

However large scale studies which show significant correlations like this, and do not include other pieces of social support data to help interpret those correlations, can be misleading.

Kennedy said a recent independent study shows that 70 large and small - scale MMA events held around the state could generate close to $ 67 million in annual spending.

Yet, Sacks says, this is the first large - scale prospective study with healthy subjects to show that apoC - III on HDL may have similar effects.

They show that large - scale alloys behave differently than found by previous studies, which focused on samples of the order of thousands of atoms.

Last spring a research team led by Michael Tippett, associate professor of applied physics and applied mathematics at Columbia Engineering, published a study showing that the average number of tornadoes during outbreaks — large - scale weather events that can last one to three days and span huge regions — has risen since 1954.

The U.K. study recommends prohibiting large - scale release of nanoparticles for remediation purposes «until it can be shown that the net benefits exceed the risks,» says Dowling.

«Our study shows that it would be relatively cheap to secure the future of the forest — and protect its plants, birds and other animals — by paying land owners on a large scale to set aside land for conservation.

Large - scale studies have shown that the link between moderate alcohol use and a lower risk of kidney cancer is real: 20 — 30 % lower, depending on gender, age and the amount of alcohol consumed.

«Recently, large - scale genetic studies have shown that certain genes contribute to adult substance use disorders.

The study also showed that the effect was much larger on a regional scale, counteracting possibly up to 30 % of warming in more rural, forested areas where anthropogenic emissions of aerosols were much lower in comparison to the natural aerosols.

Now, the first large - scale study shows that switchgrass yields more than five times the energy needed to grow, harvest, and transport the grass and convert it to ethanol.

The study shows that the annual volume of SGD for the whole Mediterranean basin ranges from 30 to 500 billion cubic metres, which demonstrates that this process is relevant at large scale and its discharge is similar or up to 15 times greater than that of river water inputs.

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).

Past studies showed that plants in nutrient - poor environments use animal - derived nutrients on a large - scale basis.

A new University of Washington study shows that impacts at individual armored sites can scale up to have cumulative, large - scale effects on the characteristics of Salish Sea shorelines and the diversity of life they support.

The study, performed by researchers in Europe and involving detailed computer simulations, shows that large - scale metamaterials can attenuate the energy and amplitude of harmful low - frequency vibrations associated with seismic shocks.

In the first large - scale and comprehensive study on the impacts of transporting honey bees to pollinate various crops, research from North Carolina State University shows that travel can adversely affect bee health and lifespan.

In a 2013 observational study, University of Wisconsin - Madison astronomer Amy Barger and her then - student Ryan Keenan showed that our galaxy, in the context of the large - scale structure of the universe, resides in an enormous void — a region of space containing far fewer galaxies, stars and planets than expected.

Professor Jeremy Pearson, Associate Medical Director at the BHF, which part - funded the study, said: «By using the power of very large scale genetic studies, this research is the first to show that the known association between increased height and a lower risk of coronary heart disease is at least in part due to genetics, rather than purely down to nutrition or lifestyle factors.

Previous studies, including large - scale trials in China, have shown that cruciferous vegetables that have a high concentration of sulforaphane — such as broccoli, cabbage and garden cress — help mitigate the effects of environmental carcinogens.

While second - stage results showed no significant differences between participants continuing to receive weekly doses of the active drug, those receiving biweekly doses and those shifted to placebo, Kimball notes that, since it is typical for the severity of HS symptoms to increase and decrease and because the study protocol required treatment discontinuation for participants whose symptoms stopped responding to the drug, larger scale studies will be required to better define the ideal length and frequency of treatment.

«By showing that it's technologically and economically possible, this study could reduce the barriers to a large scale transformation.»

One gel has shown hints of working in a large - scale human study (ScienceNOW, 9 February), but the rest have failed or even caused harm.

A study by Qaim had shown that small - scale farmers in India who grew genetically modified cotton had larger harvests compared with conventional cotton growers.

A large - scale study released this week showed that the herb gingko biloba has no effect in preventing dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

The eagerly awaited results from the world's first large - scale trial of a malaria vaccine are in, and they confirm what other, smaller studies had shown: The vaccine, called RTS, S, offers partial protection, cutting episodes of malaria in babies and toddlers in half.

A large - scale study of two strains of lab mouse by Viola André, Martin Hrabé de Angelis and co-authors shows that the inclusion of nesting material and shelters as environmental enrichment does not impair the scientific assessment of a battery of 164 physiological parameters in mice.

«This study shows the benefit of large - scale genetic studies as they begin to shed light on new molecules that are important for metabolism,» Lowe said.

Previous large - scale genetics studies have implicated 14 of the 110 genes as playing a role in breast cancer risk, such as the oestrogen receptor gene ESR1, showing that Capture Hi - C is an effective tool for picking up risk genes.

Large - scale genomic studies have shown that half of epithelial ovarian cancers (EOCs) have alterations in genes regulating homologous recombination (HR) repair.

In fact, this study reports the largest scale use of massively parallel genomic sequencing (so called next generation sequencing) for medical diagnostics to date and shows that it is practically feasible on a large scale.

«The assumption has been that surface ice on Mercury exists predominantly in large craters, but we show evidence for these smaller - scale deposits as well,» said Ariel Deutsch, the study's lead author and a Ph.D. candidate at Brown.

The advent of large - scale neuroimaging studies has shown that neural measures can be strongly predictive of individual differences in fluid intelligence (e.g. Kievit et al., 2014; Ritchie et al., 2015).

Sadly, studies show that the long life cycles and slow sexual maturation of deep - sea fish makes them particularly vulnerable to large - scale fishing activities.

Different kinds of historical events clearly have different effects on large - scale genetic relationships, and studies like the one by Ralph and Coop show us just how quickly a genetic landscape can be remodeled.

Theoretical and empirical studies on the emergence of human large - scale cooperation have shown that one of the important mechanisms is the existence of punishment, either directly or through externalized «pool - punishment» forces [75].

A large - scale study, published in Wellcome Open Research and which passed peer review today, has shown that inactivating the same gene in mouse embryos...

Information gathered for a large - scale study called the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) has shown cauliflower to be an especially popular cruciferous vegetable in 10 western European countries, tying for first place with cabbage for the vegetable consumed most frequently.