Sentences with phrase «researchers adjusted for»

In preparing their reports, the researchers adjusted for other colorectal cancer risk factors, such as not getting screened, obesity, physical activity and eating a lot of red or processed meats.

It's thought obesity increases inflammation throughout the body, which could also affect the lungs, so the researchers adjusted for this in their analysis.

The researchers adjusted for other factors that would contribute to weight gain, including waist - to - hip ratio and hip circumference, which means that women who were already at a high risk were pushed even farther into the danger zone when they consumed sugary drinks.

After the researchers adjusted for age, gender, race, and BMI, they found that women who scored in the top half for weight - bias internalization were three times more likely to have metabolic syndrome that those in the bottom half.

This correlation remained strong even after researchers adjusted for exercise levels, age, calorie intake and other factors that affect BMI.

This benefit of taking aspirin was seen after the researchers adjusted for other factors such as sex, age, cancer state, type of treatment, and other health conditions.

The link held even after the researchers adjusted for a girl's height, weight and the total number of calories she consumed each day.

When the researchers adjusted for demographic variables, health behaviors and health conditions, a statistically significant effect on mortality remained.

The findings held true even after the researchers adjusted for a patient's diabetes type, diabetes duration, average blood glucose levels and other measures.

The results were the same when researchers adjusted for the amount of time that had passed since the injury and the amount of medications they had received while they were in the ICU.

The researchers adjusted for body fat and socioeconomic status.

After researchers adjusted for age, sex, race, education and other health conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure, they found that those with any kind of traumatic brain injury had a 71 percent increased risk of Parkinson's disease, those with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury had an 83 percent increased risk, and those with mild traumatic brain injury had a 56 percent increased risk of Parkinson's disease.

The researchers adjusted for father's occupation, religion, education, body mass index, and fitness for military service.

This difference was independent of other heart disease risk factors including age, gender, family history, education level, body mass index, smoking habits, hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol, all of which the researchers adjusted for in their analysis.

Researchers adjusted for biases they detected in the original studies, such as failing to account for mental illness, domestic violence or arrest history or inadvertently influencing the reports of victims» friends and relatives about whether they had access to firearms.

The researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect Parkinson's disease risk, such as age, smoking and caffeine use.

The results were similar after researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect dementia risk or sleep, such as heart disease factors, depression symptoms and medication use.

Even after researchers adjusted for differences in diet, exercise and demographic variables among the participants, high levels of leptin and irisin continued to be associated with childhood adversity.

The researchers adjusted for multiple variables, including a propensity score reflecting the probability of receiving bivalirudin to account for patient differences between groups.

The results were the same when researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect brain volume, such as age, education and having diabetes or high blood pressure.

The results were the same after researchers adjusted for factors such as the baby's birth weight, gestational age at birth, and whether the mother also had epilepsy.

The association between the two conditions remained significant even when researchers adjusted for other risk factors, including age, gender, race, body mass index, physical activity, history of alcohol use and smoking, and history of other conditions like myocardial infarction, stroke and diabetes mellitus.

The results were the same after researchers adjusted for other factors that could increase the risk of stroke, such as high cholesterol, diabetes and smoking.

Once researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect dementia risk, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking, people with high levels of cynical distrust were three times more likely to develop dementia than people with low levels of cynicism.

This finding held true even after the researchers adjusted for country, gender, age, puberty, BMI, birth weight, physical activity level, maternal BMI and maternal education.

Not exact matches

Researchers found that after adjusting for other variables, assets (not including IP) increased the chances a firm would hire more than revenue.

Stanford researchers have found that exposing sleepers to an hour of short bursts of light made it possible for bodies to adjust.

For each CEO's tenure, the researchers calculated three metrics: the country - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase in return that's attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market; the industry - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase that results from rising fortunes in the overall industry; and change in market capitalization (adjusted for dividends, share issues, and share repurchases), measured in inflation - adjusted U.S. dollaFor each CEO's tenure, the researchers calculated three metrics: the country - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase in return that's attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market; the industry - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase that results from rising fortunes in the overall industry; and change in market capitalization (adjusted for dividends, share issues, and share repurchases), measured in inflation - adjusted U.S. dollafor dividends, share issues, and share repurchases), measured in inflation - adjusted U.S. dollars.

Sometimes to their amazement, [researchers] described what they called the «well - adjusted hom - ose - xuals» who, in [William] Menninger's words, «concealed their hom - ose - xuality effectively and, at the same time, made creditable records for themselves in the service.»

The researchers tracked nearly 400 babies at ages 3, 6, 9, and 12 months, and while adjusting for socioeconomic status, mother's age and IQ, gestational age, gender, birth weight, head circumference, race, age, and diet history, all soy formula - fed infant scores were within established normal ranges.

After adjusting the results for some confounds — such as differences in sociodemographics and lifestyles — the researchers concluded that Waldorf graduates did not differ from the general population in most examined diseases, including high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer or diabetes.

A third meta - analysis was published in 2007 by Ip et al. 31 The researchers combined socioeconomic status — adjusted ORs of only 3 studies that were determined by the systematic review conducted by Guise et al32 and published in 2005 to be of good or fair quality: the UK Childhood Cancer Study, 23 Shu et al, 20 and Dockerty et al. 19 Based on their analyses, they concluded that breastfeeding for more than 6 months was associated with a 20 % lower risk for ALL (OR, 0.8; 95 % CI, 0.71 - 0.91).

After adjusting for age, tumor location, and stage, researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Dermatology & Plastic Surgery Institute discovered that women diagnosed with malignant melanoma during their pregnancy or within one year of giving birth were 5.1 - times as likely to die, 6.9 - times as likely to experience metastasis, and 9.2 - times more likely to have a recurrence.

Researchers from the University of Houston have demonstrated how brain activity is used to identify different terrains — level ground and stairs, for example — a key step in developing prosthetics that allow the user's prosthesis to automatically adjust to changing ground conditions in real time.

The researchers can then quickly adjust the parameters for the type of material used or from what angle it is compressed to see how that would change the behavior of the piece.

After adjusting to account for other CRC risk factors, including other dietary components, the researchers narrowed in on high fish and fruit and low soft drinks as the best combo for reduced odds of advanced colorectal polyps.

But the gaps remain: The adjusted remuneration level for a researcher in Switzerland is slightly less than $ 60,000, whereas a researcher in France would receive $ 47,550 — 21 % less — and a similar researcher in Croatia could expect a little more than $ 27,000 — 55 % less.

The researchers adjusted their findings for race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty, education and how urban the neighborhood the children lived in was.

Adjusting for factors including patient age, health, hospital characteristics and previous cardiac procedures, researchers also found that women who had a cardiac arrest from a shockable rhythm were:

After adjusting for child age, gender, and number of children, the researchers found that high video game usage was associated with a 1.75 times the odds of high intellectual functioning and 1.88 times the odds of high overall school competence.

When they compared late - onset users with the control group and adjusting the results for variables such as age and intelligence quotient (IQ), the only difference the researchers found was in divided attention, which relates to the ability to perform multiple tasks at the same time.

The large size and diverse racial / ethnic makeup of the Breast Cancer Family Registry allowed the researchers to evaluate mortality risk across different subtypes of breast cancer and subgroups of patients, and adjust for confounding factors.

Researchers also discovered that the results stayed the same after adjusting for other factors that could affect risk including smoking, coffee intake and history of head injury.

After adjusting for other factors that could affect the risk of dementia, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, depression and alcohol abuse, researchers determined that veterans with TBI were 60 percent more likely to develop dementia than those without TBI.

After adjusting for various factors, including age, demographic factors, health behaviors such as smoking and alcohol consumption, physical activity, medical conditions, and socioeconomic status, the researchers found that black workers in general — and black professionals in particular — were more likely to experience short sleep than whites.

The patients who had been prescribed opioids before surgery spent an average of an extra half a day in the hospital after their operations, the researchers found — even after they adjusted for a wide range of co-existing factors such as medical conditions and demographic characteristics.

Performing a multivariate analysis adjusting for patient demographics and comorbidities, the UCSF researchers determined AFL catheter ablation reduced the risk for overall hospital - based health care by 6 percent, inpatient hospitalization by 12 percent and emergency department visits by 40 percent.

The researchers adjusted their results for factors that could affect semen quality, such as age, body mass index (BMI), genital malformations, time from ejaculation to analysis, and abstinence period.

After adjusting for baseline characteristics the researchers found that the rates of stroke and subsequent heart attacks were similar between the two groups, but patients prescribed antidepressants had significantly worse survival.

After adjusting for other risk factors, the researchers again found an overall survival benefit for BCT compared to BCS and mastectomy.