Sentences with phrase «many of the previous studies»

As with drinking, dietary habits were self - reported, but the study's general findings are supported by dozens of previous studies.

It can also reveal the author's attempt, present in most studies if only by implication, to correct what the writer feels is an overemphasis in the corpus of previous studies on another perspective.

«So it boils down to one study against hundred's of previous studies that really are abysmal against gays»

After analyzing hundreds of previous studies, including some that involved pregnant women and children, the authors found no strong evidence in favor of the organics.

I do not have the details of the previous study day I attended to hand but there was a talk on Fussy eating; one on Faltering growth and safeguarding; one on milk allergies and finally a presentation from Action for Children on the Nurse Family Partnership scheme pilot run in York.

Interventions to improve breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity and duration are based on extensive evidence from both observational and intervention studies of short - and long - term health benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and infants.13 — 15 Nevertheless, to our knowledge none of previous studies has systematically examined whether the increases in breastfeeding resulting from such interventions have equally benefited all socioeconomic groups.

Already, she and her collaborator, Julie Mennella, have confirmed the finding of a previous study that found that healthy babies randomized to receive cow's milk formula had accelerated weight gain compared to babies fed a hydrolyzed protein formula (a formula typically for infants with cow's milk allergy), who gained weight similarly to their breastfed counterparts.

In fact, one of my previous studies dealt with clinginess and depression within the context of couples - I didn't notice anyone suggesting that I was showing discrimination against couples in that study!

The parameters of previous studies in this context vary and lack comparability.

The methods used in the new peer - reviewed paper specifically address the limitations of the previous study.

The team already suspected there might be a link on the basis of previous studies showing that certain antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, lycophenes or flavonoids, were associated with a reduction in type 2 diabetes risk.

«We chose the basal ganglia because they are primary targets of inflammation in the brain,» says lead author Andrew Miller, MD. «Results from a number of previous studies suggest that increased inflammation may be a contributing factor to fatigue in CFS patients, and may even be the cause in some patients.»

Only a handful of previous studies have looked at the humidity issue in relation to climate change.

Contrary to the expectations of previous studies, the opportunity effects here are counter-cyclical.

That finding flies in the face of previous studies that indicate that roasting always results in a reduction in the polyphenol content in the beans.

The majority of previous studies on thyroid surgery complications have been from single institutions, often high - volume centers, which are known to have better outcomes.

«The significance of previous studies performed in test tubes was unclear,» she said.

«The current study provides support for the interpretation of the previous study because the kids who chose to go on differed from those who did not in background and musical self - concept, but not in terms of ability,» Demorest said.

«As a result of the previous study, we reported that SUMO is probably important for controlling expression of active genes because we found it on every gene we looked at, but only when they were turned on,» notes Rosonina.

This substantiates the results of a number of previous studies dealing with the epidemiology of childhood overweight and obesity.

«Ice cores only tell you about temperatures in Antarctica,» Shakun notes of previous studies that relied exclusively on an ice core from Antarctica that records atmospheric conditions over the last 800,000 years.

Although dozens of previous studies have hunted for infectious agents that could trigger Alzheimer's, they haven't been systematic enough to identify a culprit, Tanzi says.

The authors are quick to point out that climate change is still detrimentally affecting the habitats of those species, but at a much slower rate than dozens of previous studies forecast.

To address limitations of previous studies, the review included 11 clinically and geographically diverse cohorts.

«The majority of previous studies have relied on conceptual, idealized models, which are not physically and geologically accurate,» Liu said.

Professor Young says: «A number of previous studies have investigated the attenuation (height reduction) of ocean waves as they spread across individual coral reefs.

Spruance's research builds off of previous studies that show students are more likely to use salad bars if they are included in the normal serving line.

«These new results and those of a previous study we carried out support the current dietary guidelines to eat fish two to three times a week and to vary between oily and lean fish,» says Dr Anna Bergström.

According to Dan M. Frangopol, the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University and You Dong, Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the majority of previous studies have focused on structural performance and loss assessment under hurricanes.

Both these risks were expected to rise on the basis of previous studies, says statistician Richard Gray of the University of Birmingham, U.K., who chairs the panel.

Despite findings of previous studies and published guidelines, nearly two - thirds of patients with T4a larynx («voice box») cancer are not receiving a total laryngectomy (surgical removal of the larynx), the recommended form of treatment, and as a result, have significantly worse survival rates versus those treated with a total laryngectomy, a new study published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics by experts at Penn Medicine found.

These findings are in line with those of previous studies.

In addition, their findings differed from those of previous studies of Western children with regard to the age at which the adult response pattern was observed, and showed that cultural differences might have been one of the reasons for this.

Most of these previous studies of posture, however, focused on standing positions rather than different sitting postures.

The researchers added that this did not mean the modelling results of the previous study were wrong.

Results of previous studies in mice of bexarotene's effect on AD have been mixed, and none of those studies were done in mice that carry a human APOE gene and also develop progressive, AD - like pathology.

One of the problems of previous studies was to exclude the possibility that animals chose a novel stimuli simply out of curiosity rather than by the exclusion of known negative stimuli.

Already, she and her collaborator, Julie Mennella, have confirmed the finding of a previous study that found that healthy babies randomized to receive cow's milk formula had accelerated weight gain compared to babies fed a hydrolyzed protein formula (a formula typically for infants with cow's milk allergy), who gained weight similarly to their breastfed counterparts.

The hunter - gatherer communities in South America and Africa at the focus of previous studies eat traditional diets that are high in fiber.

We hope that this result will accelerate the automation and miniaturization of gel electrophoresis, which in turn can make medical diagnoses and DNA sequencing cheaper, faster, and more reliable,» says Assoc. Prof. Nathaniel Robinson, leader of the research group, on their «work as a logical extension of previous studies on conducting polymer electrodes in electrokinetic systems.»

«Sure, there have been lots of previous studies that covered similar ground, but the feeling was that we needed to pull all of it together to generate some momentum.»

This makes the Flemish Gut Flora Project unique, since the majority of previous studies focused on specific diseases or featured a significantly smaller geographical scope.

The evidence for immune activation was most prominent in the anterior cingulate cortex, a brain region involved in mood regulation and implicated in the biological origin of depression, confirming the results of a previous study that first identified altered microglial activation in medication - free MDD patients.

Measuring museum specimens revealed that U.K. birds had slightly longer beaks than those in mainland Europe — a difference of about half a millimeter — confirming the findings of a previous study.

«Our results reinforce the findings of previous studies that childhood obesity causes advanced puberty and metabolic disorders in adulthood,» Wang said.

The new findings aren't surprising in light of previous studies on bacteria, says food scientist Donald Schaffner of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who was not involved in the new work.

«As in two of our previous studies, we found clear sex differences in the jealousy responses among those who had to choose which aspect of infidelity was most upsetting to them.

In addition, the new trial randomized patients to receive their angioplasty via a catheter inserted in an artery in either the arm or the groin, thus accounting for the potential effects different catheter access points may have had on the results of previous studies.

«None of the previous studies had a direct link to any molecular mechanisms that might be going on,» he says.

And as a linked editorial by Dr Marie Pedersen, of the Centre for Epidemiology and Screening, University of Copenhagen, highlights, most of these previous studies were unable to take account of potentially influential factors, such as obesity, infections, alcohol, and occupation and stress, all of which have been associated with an increased risk of stillbirth.