Sentences with phrase «of nonusers»

Facebook even creates «shadow profiles» of nonusers.

One study, led by Arria — and funded by Ortho - McNeil - Janssen, the makers of the stimulant Concerta — found that 17 % of stimulant misusers had ADHD symptoms, compared with about 9 % of the group of nonusers.

In one hopeful finding, a 2012 meta - analysis found that in 13 studies in which participants had laid off weed for 25 days or more, their performance on cognitive tests did not differ significantly from that of nonusers.

This metabolite was also present in urine and feces of nonusers and long - term marihuana smokers.

Not exact matches

Representative Frank Pallone, Democratic of New Jersey, said that he hoped Mr. Zuckerberg would respond promptly to the questions, noting that Facebook «has yet to fully account for all of the data that it has on both users and nonusers and how it uses that data.»

If it brings peace of mind to the users, and does not directly effect nonusers, then there are no losers.

This one was commissioned by the evangelical journal, Christianity Today, and in its multi-variate analyses provides useful information on differences between users and nonusers of religious television.

Some dental malocclusions have been found more commonly among pacifier users than nonusers, but the differences generally disappeared after pacifier cessation.284 In its policy statement on oral habits, the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry states that nonnutritive sucking behaviors (ie, fingers or pacifiers) are considered normal for infants and young children and that, in general, sucking habits in children to the age of 3 years are unlikely to cause any long - term problems.285 There is an approximate 1.2 - to 2-fold increased risk of otitis media associated with pacifier use, particularly between 2 and 3 years of age.286, 287 The incidence of otitis media is generally lower in the first year of life, especially the first 6 months, when the risk of SIDS is the highest.288, — , 293 However, pacifier use, once established, may persist beyond 6 months, thus increasing the risk of otitis media.

With other factors constant, the authors found that Internet users had an average predicted probability of depression of.07, whereas that probability for nonusers was.105.

Users of the mobile app reported spending less time in the sun (average days keeping time in the sun to a minimum, 60.4 percent for app users vs. 49.3 percent for nonusers) and more use of all sun protection behaviors (such as sunscreen, protective clothing and shade) combined (average days, 39.4 percent vs. 33.8 percent).

A slew of studies in adults have found that nonusers beat chronic weed smokers on tests of attention, memory, motor skills and verbal abilities, but some of this might be the result of lingering traces of cannabis in the body of users or withdrawal effects from abstaining while taking part in a study.

The distribution of age, ethnicity / race, year of diagnosis and marital status were comparable between testosterone users and nonusers.

Within one year, 49 percent of the tobacco users with PAD in the study were hospitalized, a hospitalization rate 35 percent higher than nonusers.

On a wider scale, looking at the overall comparison between the study's roughly 22,000 nonusers and 4,000 users, and statistically adjusting for certain factors, the researchers found a similar outcome: Users of statins were more than twice as likely to develop diabetes.

Ultimately, he says, «I hope our findings will point the way toward future interventions that prevent or treat nicotine addiction, a topic of increasing importance in light of the expanding marketing of electronic nicotine delivery devices — e-cigarettes — to youthful nicotine nonusers.»

Examining the characteristics and beliefs of hydroxyurea users and nonusers among adults with sickle cell disease.

People who use proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have a 20 percent to 50 percent higher risk of chronic kidney disease compared with nonusers, said lead author Dr. Morgan Grams, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

When the researchers compared label users to nonusers they found — unsurprisingly — that the diets of label readers were lower in total calories, fat, saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars.

Although the combined treatment of oral progestogens with percutaneous progesterone significantly decreased the risk of breast cancer (RR = 0.5; 95 % confidence interval 0.2 - 0.9) as compared with nonusers, there was no significant difference in the risk of breast cancer in percutaneous progesterone users versus nonusers among oral progestogen users.

In a study using data from NHANES 2003 — 2006 to assess mineral intakes among adults, average intakes of magnesium from food alone were higher among users of dietary supplements (350 mg for men and 267 mg for women, equal to or slightly exceeding their respective EARs) than among nonusers (268 mg for men and 234 for women)[22].

But on the upside, in the year leading up to the survey, feelings of well - being were higher among ayahuasca users than among nonusers.

Specifically, we surveyed 96 individuals, all of whom were attending a singles «happy hour, and compared users and nonusers of contemporary MMIs on several important characteristics.

The purpose of the present research was to provide an empirical exploration of the validity of the layperson stigma towards users of contemporary MMIs by assessing the extent to which users and nonusers of these various services differ on key individual characteristics relevant to relationship initiation and progression.

Since nonusers could not have been affected by the voucher, the impact of scholarship use can be computed easily by dividing the pure experimental impact by the proportion of treatment students who used their scholarships, effectively rescaling the impact across scholarship users instead of all treatment students including nonusers.

Thesis: «The Effects of Marijuana Usage on Cognitive Task Performance» examines the performance of marijuana users vs. nonusers on verbal memory and attention / concentration tasks.

Comparisons of adolescent drug users and nonusers document the importance of fathers who provide praise and encouragement and of mothers who provide advice and guidance to drug - abstaining youth (Coombs & Landsverk, 1988).

Specifically, a few studies demonstrate that women using HCs show weaker cyclical shifts in preferences for cues of genetic fitness than do nonusers (11 ⇓ ⇓ — 14).

Further, a few additional studies demonstrate that women using HCs demonstrate weaker overall preferences for cues of genetic fitness than do nonusers (15, 16).