Sentences with phrase «previous observational studies»

The support interaction task we used was similar to the one used in previous observational studies of marital support (e.g., [1][11]-RRB-.

Previous observational studies have focused on specific areas and time periods.

Previous observational studies indicate that a high ratio of bacteria in the groupsFirmicutesand Bacteroidetes (FB) is linked with increased body weight.

Previous observational studies estimate that 60 to 90 percent of bariatric surgery patients who were obese and had type 2 diabetes were later able to maintain normal blood glucose levels without medication.

This result provides further confirmation of previous observational studies that had suggested the existence of such a link.

Previous observational studies have associated higher maternal pregnancy vitamin D levels with increased offspring bone mass.

As in previous observational studies, participants reported feeling less hungry during the week they consumed walnut - containing smoothies than during the week they were given the placebo smoothies.

These results are consistent with previous observational studies and relevant from a public health perspective,» the authors write.

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The study builds on previous observational research suggesting that e-cigs could help smokers quit.

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.

Interventions to improve breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity and duration are based on extensive evidence from both observational and intervention studies of short - and long - term health benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and infants.13 — 15 Nevertheless, to our knowledge none of previous studies has systematically examined whether the increases in breastfeeding resulting from such interventions have equally benefited all socioeconomic groups.

NICE (2015) discusses a study by Landon et al (2006) that showed no significant difference in the rates of uterine rupture in VBAC with two or more previous cesarean births compared with a single previous cesarean birth, and states that these findings are consistent with «other observational studies,» (p 7).

Previous studies lacked the observational data included in Doherty's analysis, making earlier estimates much less accurate.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

(2) I hope someone in 2100 will make a thorough study of all studies such as this one to see how the forecasts compare to the observational data from the previous 200 years.

In this study, scientists from Georgia Tech, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University expanded on previous research by combining observational data and model simulations to explore the link between unusually large snowfall amounts in the Northern Hemisphere in recent winters and diminishing Arctic sea ice.

This evidence of reduced resistance to bleaching in 2004 in corals at Butaritari supports previous short - term manipulative experiments and long - term observational studies which found that higher background temperature variability or previous exposure to heat stress conferred bleaching resistance [15], [33]--[37].

Previous studies found large biases between individual observational and model estimates of historical ocean anthropogenic carbon uptake.