Sentences with phrase «placebo groups»

Overall, the difference in weight loss between the pyruvate supplement and placebo groups was not large, amounting to approximately 1.1 - 1.6 kg (about 2 - 3 lb) additional weight loss in the pyruvate groups.

During a baseline night in which blood was not drawn, there was no difference in sleep quality between the progesterone and placebo groups.

In 2015, supporting all of this evidence, a wide - ranging study was published that included data from 79 trials (6,462 participants), which «reported improvements to symptoms compared with patients in placebo groups.»

Other side effects experienced by a small percentage of the Contrave groups, but less than 1 % of the placebo groups, included nausea, headaches, and dizziness.

After 18 months, the average mental decline in the DHA and placebo groups was nearly identical, as measured on two separate tests and rating scales.

A cosmetics industry representative interviewed for this story pointed out that the EWG report «lacks many of the rigors that you would normally associate with a real scientific report,» such as a large study population and control or placebo groups.

Researchers that examined the efficacy of echinacea in a randomized controlled trial also asked participants about any potential adverse effects that took place in the placebo groups compared to the intervention.

Discontinuation rates due to all causes were similar between the zonisamide and placebo groups (risk ratio, 1.29; 95 % CI, 0.90 to 1.84; p = 0.16).

The researchers found that the rates of subclinical atherosclerosis progression, as measured by changes in common carotid artery intima - media thickness or coronary artery calcium, did not differ significantly between men assigned to the testosterone or placebo groups.

Both groups of patients were encouraged to walk several times per day, and both GM - CSF and placebo groups saw increases in their ability to walk (30 percent increase for GM - CSF compared to 21 percent increase for placebo).

Many of the trials are based on small samples of patients, less than 10 in each of the drug and placebo groups.

Placebo groups haven't only been a problem for Ambrosia.

After 6 months, while hsCRP increased in both AAW and WAW placebo groups, and remained essentially unchanged in the aspirin - treated AAW group, it decreased by 25 % in the aspirin - treated WAW group.

While IL - 6 increased in both placebo groups and in the aspirin - treated AAW group, it decreased by 48 % in the aspirin - treated WAW group.

Research staff were not informed regarding which monkeys were included in the treatment vs placebo groups.

Overall, the gene therapy was well tolerated and patients in the treatment and placebo groups experienced similar rates of adverse events.

While both the treated and placebo groups recovered significant function, three out of four of the treated monkeys were able to return to their pre-operative grasping methods.

With no possibility of rejection, offers were lower overall ($ 3.68 on average), and there was no statistical difference between the oxytocin and placebo groups.

The current analysis compared the serelaxin and placebo groups for the occurrence of worsening heart failure within the first 5 days of admission to hospital.

The treatment and placebo groups» fracture rates were 20 percent (18 women) and 16 percent (15 women), respectively, and mortality rates were 16 percent (14 women) and 13 percent (12 women), respectively.

In the debate among clinics and researchers on SSRIs, it has been argued that SSRIs may lack specific therapeutic properties and that their beneficial effects observed in clinical trials, could be explained by different expectancies in the drug and placebo groups.

At the end of the study, there was no difference between the cinnamon and placebo groups in terms of glucose or cholesterol.

The randomised, blinded phase of the trial found no difference between the statin and placebo groups for erectile dysfunction (1.86 % vs 2.14 % per year).

Migraine days were significantly reduced within all three groups from baseline to post-treatment; the effect continued in the CSMT and placebo groups at all follow - up time points, whereas the control group returned to baseline.

Vitex has been demonstrated to enhance fertility in clinical studies - and women with fertility disorders benefited from vitex, with more pregnancies than in the placebo groups.

The baseline characteristics of the compression and placebo groups were not statistically different.

Meta - analysis revealed no significant differences between LCPUFA and placebo groups in BSID Mental Developmental Index (MDI) scores at 18 months (MD 0.06, 95 % CI -2.01 to 2.14; I2 = 75 %; four trials; N = 661) and no significant differences in BSID Psychomotor Development Index (PDI) scores at 18 months (MD 0.69, 95 % CI -0.78 to 2.16; I2 = 61 %; four trials; N = 661).

Results will be compared between the Vascepa and placebo groups.

Investments in high variance stocks were on average 13 % lower in week 2 for the cortisol - then - placebo group.

For the testosterone - then - placebo group, investments in high variance stocks fell on average 20 % in week 2, whereas they increased by 88 % on average in the placebo - then - testosterone group.

In the second trial, First Fruits had three groups: a placebo group, a group taking 1,200 mgs of the active ingredient and the third group taking 800 mg of the ingredient.

Results: Daily ingestion of wheat - based starch hydrolysates, glucose syrups and maltodextrins, had no deleterious effect on small - bowel mucosal villous architecture or inflammation in coeliac disease patients when compared to the placebo group.

At the end of the study, the curcumin group had lower levels of three blood markers of inflammation, including C - reactive protein (CRP), along with lower fasting blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c (a measure of longer term blood sugar levels).5 For comparison, the placebo group had higher blood sugar levels and increased inflammation after the eight weeks.

Analysis of the data showed on average a 3.4 % decline in postmarathon treadmill tests in the placebo group and a 2.6 % improvement in postmarathon treadmill test times in the compression group.

Compared with the placebo group the compression group had a 5.9 % improvement in their run time to exhaustion.

In the placebo group, run to exhaustion time decreased by 3.4 % (− 62 ± 130 seconds), P = 0.009.

Our results confirmed our hypothesis showing that there was a significant improvement in run time to exhaustion in the compression group compared with the placebo group.

The placebo group were provided with a noncompressive SmartKnit seamless knee - high diabetic sock.

At one month, the probiotic group cried or fussed 49 minutes more than the placebo group.

The results show that the probiotic group fussed significantly more than the placebo group at all time points from day seven to one month.

In cohort 1, compared to the placebo group influenza - like illness was reduced by 9 percent in pre - and post-partum mothers who received vaccine.

«It was successful in the sense that we did see antidepressant effects, with the important caveat that there was no placebo group,» Murrough says.

There were 111 infant deaths during the study — 50 in the placebo group and 51 in the vaccine group; and seven maternal deaths — five in the placebo group and two in the vaccine group.

The researchers found the children whose mothers took the DHA supplement during pregnancy had an average of 1.3 pounds more fat - free mass but the same amount of fat at age 5 compared with the placebo group.

Initially about one third of the 1,661 study participants received placebo, however the placebo group also received the vaccine 30 months into the study so those individuals were followed a shorter period of time, the researchers note.

At baseline, study patients had an average Clinician - Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) score of 79, but after MDMA - assisted therapy, CAPS scores dropped to 23.4 in the 13 - person MDMA group, whereas an eight - person placebo group averaged a score of 60.

Two weeks after the transfer, recipient mice had lost considerable weight; another group that received microbes from obese mice in a placebo group — undergoing surgery without gastric bypass — stayed the same.

During the study period, the incidence of serious adverse events was no higher among those receiving inosine than among the placebo group.

These improvements, he said, resulted in a greater reduction in net use of blood pressure drugs and lipid - lowering medications in the liraglutide 3 mg group than in the placebo group.

None of the Actimel patients developed the more dangerous C. difficile diarrhea, compared with 17 percent of the placebo group.