Sentences with phrase «measured at baseline»

Mothers completed a questionnaire about their shyness — anxiety, and their respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) was measured at baseline as an index of parasympathetic regulation.

For the latter variable, our final model may have been different if it had been measured at baseline.

Demographic and disease - related variables measured at baseline are referred to as level 2 variables because they reflect individual difference variables associated with the person.

All of the variables were measured at baseline, except infant temperament, which was measured when the infants were 6 months old.

Families were measured at baseline on maternal mental health, substance abuse, and partner violence by interview.

Levels of anger, negative affect, and anger control were measured at baseline, weekly during treatment, and at 3 - month posttreatment follow - up.

State paranoia was measured at baseline and following the paranoia induction.

Symptom severity was measured at baseline, post-treatment and at 6 - and 12 - month follow - up.

Depressive status, physical and mental health, functional status and quality of life were measured at baseline, 10 weeks and six months using established, validated tools.

For all outcomes measured at baseline, we used statistical adjustment for these baseline scores, providing a test of the intervention's effect on change after enrollment.

The primary outcome was a composite index providing two scales representing negative parenting and supportive parenting measured at baseline and 9 months.

Maternal exposure to physical abuse was measured at baseline and at 12, 36, and 60 months.

Substance use problem severity, mental health symptoms, and trauma symptoms were measured at baseline, and follow - up data were analyzed with prospective meta - analysis and hierarchical linear modeling.

In the morning before breakfast and after urination, body weight and waist circumference were measured at baseline and 6, 12, 18, and 24 months.

Body weight and composition were measured at baseline, at week 12 and at week 24.

In a subset of 20 patients who participated in TACT, the levels of toxic metals were measured at baseline and again after receiving a 3 - gram dose of EDTA.14 After treatment, the largest increases of metals were with lead (3700 %) and cadmium (750 %).

Thyroperoxidase and thyroglobulin autoantibodies (TPO - Ab; Tg - Ab), TSH, fT4 and urine iodine concentrations (UIC) were measured at baseline and after 6 and 12 months of follow - up.

Height and weight were measured at baseline, and weight was measured every 3 mo thereafter.

Endothelial function assessed by flow - mediated vasodilation and plasma concentration of 8 - isoprostanes were measured at baseline and at 1 and 2 h after coffee intake.

Participants» beta cell function and insulin sensitivity were measured at baseline and at the end of the study (16 weeks).

Methods: BPSD were measured at baseline... and after 24 months in 113 mild / moderate AD patients, included in the double - blind randomized trial ASCOMALVA, by the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI).

Methods: BPSD were measured at baseline

Pathology reporting was according to internationally agreed criteria.16 Patient self - reported bladder function and sexual function were measured at baseline and 6 months following surgery with the International Prostate Symptom Score (I - PSS), International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF), and Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI).

Anthropometrics and formula intake were determined monthly; total body bone mineral content (BMC) and bone mineral density (BMD) were measured at baseline, 3, and 6 months of age using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry.

The coefficient of variation for repeated measures at baseline was less than 10 %.

Children completed the following measures at baseline, posttreatment, and 3 - month follow - up: the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Children and Parents (ADIS - CP), Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS), Children's Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS), and parents completed the parent version of the SCAS and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL).

Not exact matches

Research conducted at the Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital in Northport, N.Y., concluded that a short sleep session can improve cognitive functioning and alertness, resulting in a 30 percent decline in attention failures from the baseline measure.

It's worth noting too that across all participants, cortisol levels at baseline were not associated with any of the study's other measures, such as intensity of Facebook use.

«This report establishes a baseline against which we can measure the collective impact of #movethedial as we continue to increase the participation and advancement of women in our tech community,» says Chris Dulny, National Technology Sector Leader at PwC Canada.

At baseline, week four, and week eight, participants were measured for muscle thickness, body composition, bench press and leg press strength.

At baseline (week 0), midway (week 4), and end (week 8) participants were measured for muscle thickness, body composition, bench press and leg press strength.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

As Dr. Robert Cantu explains in his 2012 book, Concussions and Our Kids, [15] it «takes more than one type of test to compile a comprehensive baseline,» because neurocognitive tests measure the thinking and reasoning parts of the brain (medial temporal lobe and front lobe), but concussions «also may cause trauma to the calcarine cortex, which is in the back of the brain and controls vision, and the cerebellum, at the top of the neck, where balance and coordination are measured.

Where a low - tide elevation is situated wholly or partly at a distance not exceeding the breadth of the territorial sea from the mainland or an island, the low - water line on that elevation may be used as the baseline for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea.

At a Wednesday news conference announcing the move, DOH Commissioner Howard Zucker repeatedly said his agency would start with a safety baseline of 400 ppt safety measure, the EPA's maximum allowable level for short - term PFOA exposure, as it began its health assessment of the contamination.

Using a current - law baseline measure, the state budget gap for fiscal 2018 - 19 alone was last projected by DOB at $ 4 billion, a figure the governor himself began citing recently (without further explanation) in his recent warnings about the implications of federal health care spending cuts.

Side effects were measured prior to RT start (baseline), at the end of RT, and at three, six, 12, 18 and 24 months following completion of RT..

Pairs of cyclotrons could be set up at three different distances, or baselines, around the same detector, which would measure how many antineutrinos from each beam morph into a different type during flight.

Additional measures were obtained at baseline, post-imagery, and at alcohol - cue presentation during ATT.

«We also showed that players that didn't have a concussion had a similar but smaller reduction of this metabolite called glutamine, when we looked at their baseline measures compared to their after - season measures.»

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), an imaging technique that measures brain activity, researchers examined all three groups at the beginning (baseline), middle, and end of the study while participants performed computer - based speed tasks in the scanner.

And at baseline, midway through the study, and at its end, participants used two devices for a week to measure how much they were sitting.

Researchers measured cortisol levels by analyzing 7,000 samples of children's saliva; samples were collected at morning baseline, and after arts and homeroom classes on two different days at the start, middle, and end of the school year.

The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) would be the biggest ever to measure a beam of neutrinos and could solve a mystery at the heart of antimatter, but it may prove too costly for a frugal Congress.

Formaggio and former postdoc Benjamin Monreal, now an assistant professor of physics at UCSB, reasoned that if they could tune into this baseline frequency, they could catch electrons as they shot out of a decaying radioactive gas, and measure their energy in a magnetic field.

The researchers also measured the apes» baseline preferences for each of the people in the stuffed animal skit at the beginning of the experiment, before the drama with the toy unfolded.

Using the findings of the TRIO study [2] as the basis for their recommendations, the Working Group recommends measuring serum PINP (procollagen type 1 N - terminal propeptide) and CTX (collagen type 1 C - terminal telopeptide) levels at baseline and after 3 months of initiating treatment.

It's hard to say, Buesseler says, what impact on the marine environment this overflow would have, but his crew will be there at the right time to measure a baseline.

For that reason, researchers measured the concentration of selenium in participants» toenails and planned to test whether selenium supplementation would benefit only the subset of men with low selenium status at baseline.

Researchers measured an epigenetic marker, DNA methylation levels, in obese adolescents from a blood sample at baseline and again at the end of the 10 - week program.