Sentences with phrase «other study population»

(The other study population was «harassed rodents.»)

Since the average age of this study population was 61 years, these results might not be generalizable to other study populations.

Not exact matches

«While we are disappointed CheckMate - 026 did not meet its primary endpoint in this broad patient population, we remain committed to improving patient outcomes through our comprehensive development program, including the ongoing Phase III CheckMate - 227 study exploring the potential of the combination of Opdivo plus [our other cancer immunotherapy] Yervoy for PD - L1 positive patients, and Opdivo plus Yervoy, or Opdivo plus chemotherapy in PD - L1 negative patients,» he added.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

And while most minimum wage research focuses on teenagers, this study looks at the influence raising the minimum wage has many other populations.

On the other population study using all US DOL data, see Testimony of Professor Douglas L. Kruse, Phd., Rutgers University.

If you use a nominal 30 % rate and figure the U.S. population at 300 million you get 90 million victims, which statistically corroborates with the number from other studies citing direct reports.

The AP study further concluded that where Gen Y leads, other cohorts will soon follow: «the rest of the population is catching up to the vanguard.»

Studies point to the decline of Muslim birthrates in ways that parallel other populations worldwide.

Others are observational studies which examine data in the whole population.

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

Christians make up 2 % of the population, behind Folk Religions and Other Religions, according to the study.

They often take scientific literature out of context or extrapolate information from studies that focus on other populations.

Other Cancers: Several population studies link whole grains with lower levels of inflammation and insulin resistance, which links to cancer development.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

«Our study shows that young knees are more prone to re-injury than the adult population when compared to other research in this area - and is the first study to examine the incidence and risk factors for further ACL injury in a solely juvenile population over the long term,» said lead author Justin Roe of North Sydney Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre.

Parents need to understand that anecdotes have to be backed up by population studies; there is no other way to guard against biases and confounding variables.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differestudy design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differeStudy is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number of studies that show a possible protective effect of human milk feeding against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37 Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement of cognitive development.38, 39

«It will be important to see whether these results can be confirmed in future, larger studies and in other populations,» said senior author Thomas Newman, MD, MPH, a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF and a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.

No studies included in this review involved populations of hospitalised infants undergoing other skin - breaking procedures.

And in the other study, the 29 % one, wasn't it a sampling of the general population?

In a study of 1001 home births in the Toronto area before the regulation of midwifery, the transport rate during labour and post partum was 16.5 %.8 In other national, population - based studies of planned home births, rates of intrapartum transport ranged from 14.5 % in Australia9 to 20.3 % in the Netherlands.3

Although our perinatal death rate lies well within the rates described in other population - based studies, it deserves ongoing monitoring in view of the small numbers of births it is based on to date.

In this study, the frequency of fan use was similar in young and less educated women as in other women; thus, fan use can be easily adopted by these populations.

Findings from this study also may not be generalizable to other sociodemographic groups or populations with less social and educational support for breastfeeding.

Thus, the PURPLE program may be effective in other populations unless they differ in terms of demographic characteristics not measured in this study.

One study assessed incident disease in a population without data on dietary intake other than alcohol (4), and 2 studies measured prevalent hypertension, adjusting only for concurrent health behaviors (5, 11).

Other investigators have reported a significant increase in adverse perinatal outcomes related to planned home births, especially where skilled birth attendants are not universally integrated into regional health systems, or in population - based studies that include at - risk pregnancies [20 — 22].

Cuomo's health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker says as he examined numerous completed and still on going studies on fracking's effects on drinking water, air quality and other health issues, several «red flags» were raised, and he says he has «identified significant health risks in the current data» that have not been answered by conclusive long term studies with «large population pools».

Other measures being studied by Mr Gove include reducing the prison population by sending foreign criminals home before they have completed their sentences.

In the new study, led by graduate student Steven Briscoe, the team found that other populations of neurons in the bird DVR share molecular signatures with neocortical intratelencephalic cells, or IT neurons.

Many studies in this population indicated that food intake couldn't explain why some women tended to gain weight after menopause more than others.

Commenting on the study, ESMO spokesperson Dirk Arnold, MD, PhD, from Instituto CUF de Oncologia in Lisbon, Portugal, said «this large population - based cohort - control study impressively confirms the hypothesis of an association of colorectal polyps with diets and other life - style factors.

The difference between Paleoamerican and modern Native American facial features is likely a combination of additional waves of migration from Siberia, via Beringia, and genetic drift, a gradual change in appearance and other traits as populations divide, migrate and adapt, says Jim Chatters, a Seattle - area anthropologist who led the multinational study of Naia.

However, other recent studies do confirm that all present - day non-African populations branched off from a single ancestral population in Africa approximately 60,000 years ago.

«We asked this population directly why they had thoughts of suicide and death, and what we found contradicted past study findings — the vast majority of participants said factors other than depression including illness, disability, pain, financial concerns, family problems and bereavement are driving these thoughts,» said Dr. Kennedy.

«In our Northern California study population, it does not appear that families use complementary and alternative treatments due to the lack of availability of conventional services, as has been suggested by other research,» Hansen said.

The new framework enhances the ability to detect genetic associations and interactions by taking advantage of data from other genomic studies of the same population.

«Understanding changes in prevalence according to population subgroups is important to inform clinicians about care that will be needed for the pediatric population living with diabetes and may provide direction for other studies designed to determine the causes of the observed changes,» the authors write.

A new University of Washington study, with funding and satellite data from NASA and other agencies, finds a trend toward earlier sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the fall across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears.

Ten other populations are increasing, the study found, including bowhead whales and walrus, while nine others are stable.

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.

«We came into the study from our Asian samples and then started looking for this signal in other populations,» said Tsao.

Not to worry though, because what chance is there that our scientific study results could even be related to foreign relations, other than, you know, research on global warming or acid rain or fish populations or avian - flu transmission or mad - cow - disease transmission, or ozone depletion or....

If you want to study a particular animal, they say, there's probably some other population elsewhere.

HIV is widespread in these populations and because strains of the virus are more divergent there than in other regions studied, it is reasonable to believe it has been there longer than elsewhere.

One hypothesis that has arisen from the study is that we are not equally protected and that there are genetic variations in the population that determine that some people have more robust safety mechanisms to respond to polyp formation than others.

For years, scientists studying lakes and other ecosystems have predicted collapses before they happen, using long - term data on environmental factors and population health.

Consumption of contaminated fish «is an especially pressing concern for many communities of color, low - income communities, tribes, and other indigenous peoples, whose members may consume fish, aquatic plants, and wildlife in greater quantities than does the general population,» according to a landmark Environmental Protection Agency study published nearly a decade ago.