Sentences with phrase «of study populations»

Unlike other commonly - used measures of mental health, WEMWBS did not show a ceiling effect in either of the study populations, indicating that the measure may have potential for documenting overall improvements in population mental well - being.
For the most part, intervention effects have not proven to be significantly different for different types of study populations.
We summarized characteristics of study populations and interventions and used descriptive statistics to report study outcomes.
Using standardized forms, 2 investigators independently extracted data regarding study design; descriptions of the study populations, comparison groups, and intervention; and baseline and outcome data.
However, because of the wide variety of study populations, limitations in some study designs, and variable outcome measures, further research is needed to enhance the ability to generalize and apply yoga to reduce anxiety.
Some of the study populations that previously were considered fish - only diners also feast on mammals, the team's research shows.
Research has been limited since the previous definition excluded overweight patients, leaving them out of study populations.
More than half of the study population exceeded the WHO's cut - off for FS, especially children and adolescents.
The weighted mean ± SD added - sugars intake of the study population was 60 ± 53 g / d or 15 % higher than that estimated by the ABS.
The post on the Neurologica blog suggests the differences amounts to about 20 babies based on the size of the study population.
Many of these animals are fierce predators that sit atop the food web, but Laidre's team found that they are also important subsistence resources: Arctic people hunt nearly 80 % of the studied populations for food and other uses.
Just one - fifth of the study population accounted for 81 percent of criminal convictions and 77 percent of fatherless childrearing.
In Germany, nearly 40 % of the study population had used complementary and alternative forms of treatment, whereas in Hungary the corresponding share was 10 %.
Owing to the small number of participants in this subset of the study population, the pregnancy - associated change was not statistically significant.
That's according to a new study from the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, which found the prevalence of heart failure is significantly higher in patients with COPD compared to the rest of the study population.
About 2.6 percent of the study population first attempted suicide and 3.2 percent were convicted of a first violent offense during the study period.
Of the study population, 68 percent had 0 ACEs, 17 percent had 1 ACE, 3.8 percent had 3 ACEs and 0.93 percent had 5 or more ACEs.
«This is a study of unprecedented statistical power because of the massive size of the study population.
In the first national study of a large, diverse population, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues, found that 1.2 percent of the study population engaged with devices, and that most of the individuals who started using an activity tracker were younger and had higher - incomes than people who opted not to use the devices.
Of the study population, 89/90 achieved a sustained virologic response 12 weeks after treatment (SVR12); one treatment - naïve genotype 1 patient with cirrhosis relapsed.
Rare variations were defined as those found in less than one per cent of the study population.
As part of their regular reassessment of the study population in 2011, the team measured the functions of kidneys, liver, lungs, metabolic and immune systems.
Results showed that 78 % of the study population had resumed sexual intercourse by 3 months, 94 % by 6 months, 97 % by 12 months and 98 % by 18 months postpartum.
The primary measured outcome was carbon monoxide - confirmed self - reported 7 - day point - prevalence abstinence (the proportion of the study population abstinent at a specific point in time) at 26 weeks.
Roughly half of the study population was white and one - third was Hispanic.
Cho said the study's chief limitation was the homogeneity of the study population.
Since the average age of this study population was 61 years, these results might not be generalizable to other study populations.
«Remarkably, the advantage of 15 - mg / kg ATLG over the 30 - mg / kg dose was evident in patients transplanted from donors with one or more HLA disparities, who represented almost half of the study population,» the researchers wrote.
For each study, we extracted data on baseline characteristics (age, sex, histology, stage, grade, and smoking history) of the study population that could potentially confound the link between smoking and the outcome.
We explain the ramifications for sample sizes of rare - variant studies, note the importance of studying populations outside of northwestern Europe, and caution against simplistic dichotomous interpretations of disease as either complex or monogenic.
In the United States, the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found 54.3 % of the study population to have evidence of allergic sensitization to at least one thing.
There were ≈ 1.5-fold differences in total magnesium intake between the highest and lowest quintiles of the study population (medians: 382 mg / d in the highest quintile, 230 mg / d in the lowest).
Sex differences between our findings and those of prior studies may have been due to the overall healthy sample of our study population, but could also have been due to the race distribution and relatively small size of our sample.
Effectively there were only three cohorts, since the highest HbA1c cohort had only 2 % of the sample; the other three cohorts contained 27 %, 36 %, and 36 % of the study population respectively.
Baseline and final muscle biopsies were obtained in a subset of the study population (n = 24 ST; n = 18 CON).
Characteristics of our study population in the year before their first sigmoidoscopy, by their fruit and vegetable intake, are presented in Table 1.
Dermatological disorders were a commonly recorded grouped - level event in French Bulldogs, with 17.9 % of the study population affected.
Although the precise duration that an animal spent in a particular disease stage could not be determined based on the voluntarily nature of the examinations and the widespread distribution of the study population across several continents, repeated examinations were used to provide a rough estimate of disease progression.
Dr. Lewandowsky's peer - reviewed research provoked predictable responses from members of his study population.
Monitoring will be performed by a qualified person independent of the study group and will be organised in two parts: the initial visit took place before the start of recruitment and the second visit after approximately 10 % of the study population have been recruited.
Thus, the apparent low estimate (16.5 %) of illicit drug use may largely be an artifact of the age structure of the study population.
Additionally, the large and diverse nature of the study population allows for a fair amount of generalizability to other youth populations.
Baseline characteristics of the study population were summarised with counts (percentages) for all categorical variables.
Although schools and classes were randomly selected, the representativeness of the study population may be limited.
The mean age of the study population was similar to that of the broader population of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers (25.1 years and 24.8 years, respectively), and both these populations were substantially younger than non-Indigenous Australian mothers (mean age, 29.7 years).
The fertility rate of the study population was 3.0 babies per woman, compared with 2.1 babies per woman for the broader population of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers and a substantially lower rate of 1.76 babies per woman for all Australian women.21
The Centre for Health Record Linkage (CHeReL) will conduct the first linkage for this study, which will involve identification of the study population through linkage of the AEDI to the PDC and the RBDM birth registrations, followed by identification of records that link to the study population (or their parents) from the AEDI, PDC, RBDM, RoCC, APDC, EDDC, MH - AMB and KiDS data collections.
Linked records will be requested from the following data sources for members of the study population (figure 1).
We will not request identification of siblings who are not already part of the study population.
For a detailed overview of our study population including attrition at the different measurement occasions (S1a — S1c Fig).
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