Sentences with phrase «randomly assigned»

The patients, from 1,144 sites in 31 countries, were randomly assigned to a twice - daily regimen of ticagrelor at 90 mg, ticagrelor at 60 mg or placebo.

All 49 participants had been part of a previously reported clinical trial in which half of them had been randomly assigned to a tailored exercise program over a period of six months, and half had been left to their own devices.

The team followed a group of 132 infants in Montreal who were randomly assigned to receive different daily doses of vitamin D (400 IU per day, 800 IU, 1200 IU and 1600 IU) over a period of 12 months.

The participants were told that they would get a randomly assigned voice, but were actually given the most similar or dissimilar voice from their rating.

Eighty - seven 60 to 68 years old eligible postmenopausal women with knee pain and radiographically confirmed osteoarthritis - related changes in the knee joint were enrolled into the study and randomly assigned into either a training group or a control group.

M.G. Myriam Hunink, M.D., Ph.D., of the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues randomly assigned 212 patients with PAD and intermittent claudication to endovascular revascularization plus supervised exercise (n = 106) or supervised exercise only (n = 106).

Each student assessed a single, randomly assigned trait for all the voices, rating them, for instance, as more or less dominant on a scale of one to nine.

The study, called DIETFITS and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by researchers at Stanford University Medical School, randomly assigned 609 overweight adults, aged 18 to 50, to either a healthy low - fat or healthy low - carb diet.

Changhai Ding, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and colleagues randomly assigned 413 patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis and low 25 - hydroxyvitamin D to receive monthly treatment with oral vitamin D3 (50,000 IU; n = 209) or an identical placebo (n = 204) for 2 years.

There's a great study of 2 million Danish standardized tests that revealed that students who'd been randomly assigned to take standardized tests in the afternoon scored significantly lower than those randomly assigned to take them in the morning.

In the first trial, 493 adult primary health care attendees with moderately severe or severe depression were randomly assigned to either the HAP treatment plus enhanced usual care (EUC), or enhanced usual care (EUC) alone.

In the second trial, 377 adult male primary health care attendees with harmful drinking were randomly assigned to either the CAP treatment plus EUC, or EUC alone.

The DANAMI - 3 iPOST trial, which took place in Denmark, included 1,234 patients (average age 61; 79 percent male) with acute STEMI symptoms of less than 12 hours» duration who were randomly assigned to receive standard angioplasty or ischemic postconditioning prior to stent implantation in the blocked artery.

In the trial, which took place in Denmark, 1,234 patients (average age 61; 75 percent male) with acute STEMI symptoms of less than 12 hours» duration were randomly assigned to receive standard angioplasty with immediate stent implantation or angioplasty followed by stent implantation after a re-examination 24 to 48 hours later.

In the next study, the researchers measured levels of progesterone in the saliva of 59 men before all were randomly assigned to one of three groups and asked to complete word completion puzzles, one using friendship words, one using sexual words, and a third using neutral words.

The first, published in 2014, found that a full decade after older Americans participated in various brain - training methods, those who'd been randomly assigned to «speed of processing» training still functioned better in their day - to - day lives than the other participants.

In this study, patients with CFS were randomly assigned to receive GES (107 patients) in addition to specialist medical care, or receive specialist medical care alone (104 patients).

Respondents were randomly assigned one of two feedback conditions where upon completion they were informed that the monologue they had just read was either true or false.

Jon O. Ebbert, M.D., M.Sc., of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and colleagues randomly assigned 1,510 cigarette smokers to 24 weeks of varenicline or placebo with a reduction target of 50 percent or more in number of cigarettes smoked by 4 weeks, 75 percent or more by 8 weeks, and a quit attempt by 12 weeks.

They were randomly assigned to watch either a visually - rich music video or a music video that showed only the lyrics on screen.

In each study, half of participants were randomly assigned to receive lisinopril and telmisartan, while the other half received lisinopril plus a placebo.

About half of the children were randomly assigned to receive an intervention; the other half served as a control.

A total of 180 schools in Pennsylvania and Arizona were randomly assigned modified or unmodified curricula.

Students in three studies were randomly assigned to see «warm» promotional statements about their school that suggested the university was committed to supporting socioeconomic diversity.

The prospective, multi-center, controlled clinical trial randomly assigned 301 patients with moderate IMR to CABG alone or CABG with MV repair.

The patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups.

Three dozen 2 - year - olds were randomly assigned to learn new verbs in one of three ways: training with a live person, training through video chat technology such as Skype that allows audio and video interaction via screen between users at different locations, and watching a prerecorded video of the same person instructing a different child who was off screen and thus out of synch with the child in the study.

Paul D. Brown, M.D., of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and colleagues conducted a study in which 213 patients with 1 to 3 brain metastases were randomly assigned to receive SRS alone (n = 111) or SRS plus WBRT (n = 102).

In the training project, 41 untrained women aged 35 50 years with mild high blood pressure of around 140/90 mmHg were randomly assigned to either a soccer training group or an inactive control group.

Josep Rodes - Cabau, M.D., of Laval University, Quebec City, Canada, and colleagues randomly assigned 171 patients with an indication for atrial septal defect (ASD) closure and no history of migraine to receive dual antiplatelet therapy (aspirin + clopidogrel [the clopidogrel group], n = 84) or single antiplatelet therapy (aspirin + placebo [the placebo group], n = 87) for 3 months following transcatheter ASD closure.

The players were then randomly assigned to either an easy version or a difficult version of the game.

A computer program randomly assigned the image to one of the curtains only after the subjects had made their choice.

The study randomly assigned couples to one of two groups.

For the study, 322 expectant American Indian teens were randomly assigned to receive optimized standard care — transportation to prenatal and well - baby clinic visits, pamphlets about childcare and other resources and referrals to local services — or optimized standard care plus a program of 63 in - home education sessions, known as Family Spirit.

These included trials in which participants were randomly assigned to different diets, as well as observational studies in which participants» intake of fatty acids was determined by asking them about their diet or by measuring the fatty acids circulating in the bloodstream.

The mice exposed to particles were also randomly assigned for exposure during one of four gestational periods designed to mirror the stages of human pregnancy: period 1 (0.5 - 5.5 days); period 2 (6.5 - 14.5 days); period 3 (14.5 - 16.5 days); or period 4 (0.5 - 16.5 days).

The authors surveyed more than 200 individuals about their personalities then randomly assigned them a role in a mock negotiation between two companies.

According to the trial's crossover design, patients with refractory chronic cough of at least eight weeks» duration were randomly assigned initially to either AF - 219 or placebo treatment twice daily for two weeks, followed by a washout period, and further followed by crossover to the alternative treatment arm (AF - 219 or placebo) for an additional two weeks.

«The study randomly assigned heart bypass surgery patients, with and without diabetes, to two types of blood sugar control.

The study randomly assigned preschoolers by classroom to different types and numbers of arts classes.

Each person was randomly assigned to use either his or her native language or second language throughout the experiment.

To test this theory, the team randomly assigned newlyweds to one of three groups: conflict management, compassion and acceptance training, and relationship awareness through film.

The researchers conducted an experiment where participants were randomly assigned to a normal weight or obese avatar as well as normal weight or obese opponent in virtual tennis game.

To investigate the potential of simvastatin in the progressive stage of MS, the MS - STAT trial randomly assigned 140 people with secondary progressive MS (aged 18 - 65 years) to receive either 80 mg of simvastatin or placebo for 2 years.

Eighty eligible postmenopausal women from 50 to 65 - years of age and having knee pain on most days of the month, were enrolled into the study and randomly assigned into either a training group or a control group.

In this randomized controlled PARTNER 2A trial, outcomes using the SAPIEN XT valve were compared with open - heart surgery valve replacement among 2,032 intermediate - risk patients treated between December 2011 and November 2013 at 57 sites, all but two in the U.S. Patients were randomly assigned; 1,011 to TAVR and 1,021 to surgery.

Joan Lappe, Ph.D., R.N., of the Creighton University Schools of Nursing and Medicine, Omaha, and colleagues randomly assigned 2,303 healthy postmenopausal women 55 years or older (average age, 65 years) to the treatment group (n = 1,156; 2,000 IU / d of vitamin D3 and 1,500 mg / d of calcium) or to the placebo group (n = 1,147).

Contrary to the proclamations of many scientists, unreliable medical study results do not disappear with large, randomized controlled trials, in which subjects are randomly assigned to a treatment or placebo group.

Women in each group were randomly assigned to receive either oral estradiol (with progesterone vaginal gel for those with a uterus) or a placebo (which included a placebo vaginal gel for those with a uterus).

They were randomly assigned to the transfusion group or the observation group.