Sentences with phrase «matching placebo»

The double blind study, which analyzed performance, body composition, and hormone levels, randomized twenty - eight individuals to ingest either T + or a calorie - matching placebo, while all subjects adhered to a structured exercise program.

Researchers in Sweden reported last year on over 400 healthy persons over age 70 who were given CoQ10 and another nutrient selenium or matching placebo pills.

Participants with symptomatic heart failure and a left ventricular ejection fraction of 45 percent or more (normal or near normal contractions) were randomized to receive either spironolactone (15 to 45 milligrams daily) or matching placebo, and were followed for an average of nearly 3.3 years.

The study enrolled 2,831 women with singleton pregnancies at high risk for late preterm delivery (34 0/7 to 36 6/7 weeks) who were randomized to receive antenatal betamethasone intramuscularly or a matching placebo.

Patients with cirrhosis were enrolled in 2 cohorts: HCV treatment - naive or HCV treatment - experienced; patients within each cohort were also stratified according to HCV genotype 1 subtype (1a or 1b) and randomly assigned to receive weight - based ribavirin (1,000 - 1,200 mg / d) or matching placebo.

Participants were randomly assigned to receive either spironolactone (target dose of 30 milligrams / day) or matching placebo, and were followed for an average of nearly 3.5 years.

Patients were randomised in a 1:1:1 fashion to receive celecoxib (100 - 200 mg twice a day), ibuprofen (600 - 800 mg three times a day), or naproxen (375 - 500 mg twice a day) with matching placebos.

Athletes who ingested T + achieved 36 % greater improvements in total strength relative to athletes who consumed a calorie - matched placebo.

A research team led by Dr. Glyn Howatson with PhD student Phillip Bell at Northumbria University gave 16 well - trained, male cyclists about 1 ounce (30 ml) of Montmorency tart cherry juice concentrate mixed with water (equivalent to 90 whole Montmorency tart cherries per serving), or a calorie - matched placebo, twice a day for seven days.

Eighteen board - certified veterinary dermatologists in the United States enrolled a total of 299 dogs 1 year of age or older to receive APOQUEL or excipient - matched placebo at a dose of 0.4 - 0.6 mg / kg twice - daily for 14 days, and then once - daily at the same dose for up to 112 days.

Not exact matches

Chess players were given one of three cognitive enhancers (modafinil, methylphenidate, and caffeine) or placebo and matched in 15 - minute games against a computer program set at their level.

In a landmark 1999 study, Harvard psychiatrist Andrew Stoll found that bipolar patients who were given large doses of omega - 3s did significantly better and resisted relapse longer than a matched group of patients who were given placebos.

Despite the poor match, the vaccinated group suffered 23 % fewer flulike illnesses than the placebo group, lost 18 % fewer days of work, and made 25 % fewer hospital visits.

In this study, researchers from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh gave 13 healthy adults matched by age and weight 50μg of vitamin D per day or a placebo over a period of two weeks.

For this placebo - controlled and age - matched functional magnetic resonance imaging study a total of 28 subjects were included (only males, mean age = 27.09, SD ± 7.06).

Such trials in the case of statins are appealing because these drugs are relatively low cost, can easily be matched against a placebo, and would allow for enrollment at the time of an already necessary antibiotic prescription.»

The two groups were evenly matched with regard to rates of response to induction therapy (44 % complete or partial response in the pemetrexed arm vs. 42 % placebo arm).

Two matched groups were compared: group A treated with donepezil (10 mg / day) plus choline alphoscerate (1200 mg / day), and group B treated with donepezil (10 mg / day) plus placebo.

Following the same schedule, placebo group participants consumed a calorie - matched fruit cordial with less than 5 percent fruit mixed with water and maltodextrin.

Willoughby et al. [86] found that 10 weeks of resistance training supplemented with 20 g protein and amino acids 1 hour pre - and post-exercise increased strength performance and MPS compared to an energy - matched carbohydrate placebo.

The practice must have at least one study utilizing some form of control (e.g., untreated group, placebo group, matched wait list study) establishing the practice's benefit over the placebo, or found it to be comparable to or better than an appropriate comparison practice.

Just like placebo pills still need to be round and look correct, a separate rudimentary algorithm might be necessary just for the placebo matches so they don't arouse suspicion after participants completed a lengthy questionaire but are then bombarded with «bad» matches.