Sentences with phrase «placebo arm of the study»

The study was designed to accumulate 1,612 MACE at which level the study was robustly designed to have 90 % power to detect a 15 % relative risk reduction in MACE between the Vascepa and placebo arms of the study.

Not exact matches

In the study, 20 participants were randomized to receive a placebo pill or 50,000, 100,000, or 200,000 IU of vitamin D one hour after a small UV lamp «sunburn» on their inner arm.

Among subjects who had prediabetes at the beginning of the study (arm 2), blood sugar levels reverted to normal in nearly 70 percent of those receiving liraglutide versus 32 percent of people in the placebo group, according to the abstract.

Widely hailed as a «breakthrough» in HIV prevention by public health officials, the studies — one of which dropped its placebo arm today because of the convincing effects of the intervention — add powerful new tools to derail transmission of the virus in the population that accounts for most of the 34 million infections in the world.

Yesterday, away from the conference, it was reported that the placebo arm of a European trial studying the antiretroviral Truvada used as PrEP will be stopped early and volunteers will be offered the antiretroviral because of its observed effectiveness at preventing HIV infection.

No group [veggie, meat eater placebo or creatine arm] did better in word recall at the end of study than at baseline!