Sentences with phrase «review of studies concluded»

A review of studies concluded that taking zinc can shorten colds by a day and reduce their severity, especially if started the first day symptoms appear.

A recent review of studies concluded that sex during IVF treatment improves implantation rates by 23 per cent.

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Allport and Ross concluded from their review of relevant studies that although churchgoers in general are more bigoted than nonchurchgoers, the occasional churchgoer is the most bigoted of all.

One the largest analysis of the peer - reviewed literature was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2010, and this meta - analysis looked at almost 350,000 studies published on saturated fats, and concluded:

Based on the joint review, UNC and the NCAA staff concluded there were no violations of current NCAA rules or student - athlete eligibility issues related to courses in African and Afro - American Studies.

Two 2003 studies suggest that heading in soccer may result in weaker mental performance, including a decline in cognitive function, difficulty in verbal learning, planning and maintaining attention and reduced information processing speed, but a critical review of the literature in 2010 by an expert panel of the American Academy of Pediatrics found no support for such a finding, and a 2012 study in the journal Neurosurgery concluded that it was «unlikely» that the subtle cognitive differences detected were sufficient to affect the daily lives of players.

Based on a review of 30 studies and 1925 babies a Cochrane Review concluded that skin to skin contact after birth enabled babies to interact more with their mothers, stay warmer, cry less are more likely to breastfeed and to breastfeed for longer (Moore et al review of 30 studies and 1925 babies a Cochrane Review concluded that skin to skin contact after birth enabled babies to interact more with their mothers, stay warmer, cry less are more likely to breastfeed and to breastfeed for longer (Moore et al Review concluded that skin to skin contact after birth enabled babies to interact more with their mothers, stay warmer, cry less are more likely to breastfeed and to breastfeed for longer (Moore et al 2007).

The National Institutes of Health reviewed more than 9,000 study abstracts and concluded that women who didn't breastfeed or who stopped breastfeeding early on had a higher risk of postpartum depression.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

Several reviews have concluded that home visiting can be an effective strategy to improve the health and developmental outcomes of children from socially disadvantaged families.2 - 4 However, effects have not been found consistently and some studies have reported no impact.

In a systematic review of school - based interventions aimed at modifying knowledge, attitudes, social norms and intentions to breastfeed, researchers concluded that «Overall, these studies demonstrated positive effects on perceptions and attitudes toward breastfeeding and increased behavioral intention of breastfeeding later in life.

Conversely, many researchers have observed a greater risk of overweight in children and adolescents who had not been breastfed compared with those who had16, 17 or who were breastfed a shorter rather than longer duration.18 — 25 On the basis of a review of 11 studies, Dewey26 concluded that «the evidence to date suggests that breastfeeding reduces the risk of child overweight to a moderate extent.»

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).

In order to clarify where social science stands on these issues, a February 2014 study published in the highly ranked peer - review journal, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law with the endorsement of 110 of the world's top authorities (from 15 countries) in attachment, early child development, and divorce concludes that overnights and shared residential parenting should be the norm for children of all ages including infants and toddlers.

A comprehensive review of all the scientific studies on swaddling published in 2007 concluded that in general swaddled babies arouse less and sleep longer.

Four of the 6 studies found no relationship between diphtheria - tetanus - pertussis vaccination and subsequent SIDS, 316, — , 319 and results of the other 2 studies suggested a temporal relationship but only in specific subgroup analysis.320, 321 In 2003, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences reviewed available data and concluded that «[t] he evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between exposure to multiple vaccinations and SIDS.»

When the American Academy of Sleep Medicine reviewed the literature on infant and child sleep training, it reported that in 17 out of 19 published studies, unmodified extinction — the clinical term for crying - it - out — effectively reduced bedtime resistance and the frequency of nighttime wakings, concluding that it «has a strong record of accomplishment.»

A damning report on how the University of Minnesota (UM) protects volunteers in its clinical trials concludes that researchers inadequately reviewed research studies across the university and need more training to better protect the most vulnerable subjects.

Last year in NeuroToxicology, Weuve and colleagues reviewed 18 human studies published as of late 2015, and concluded that as a whole, the evidence was «highly suggestive» and in need of more exploration.

► «A damning report on how the University of Minnesota (UM) protects volunteers in its clinical trials concludes that researchers inadequately reviewed research studies across the university and need more training to better protect the most vulnerable subjects,» Jennifer Couzin - Frankel wrote Monday at ScienceInsider.

The study, published in the scientific journal Biological Reviews, concludes that the theory of «fecundity selection» — one of Charles Darwin's three main evolutionary principles, also known as «fertility selection» — should be redefined so that it no longer rests on the idea that more fertile females are more successful in evolutionary terms.

A review of health - related studies published last month inEnvironmental Science & Technology concluded that the current scientific literature puts forward «both substantial concerns and major uncertainties to address.»

It concluded that a review of studies of one of Monsanto's most successful products, the widely - used herbicide Roundup, showed no evidence of harmful effects on people.The lead author on the paper is Gary Williams, a pathologist at NYMC.

The authors review over 800 recent studies addressing human rights violations against sex workers, HIV, law and policy, concluding that criminalization of sex work fuels and fosters human rights violations and increases sex workers» susceptibility to HIV, including by reducing sex workers» access to HIV prevention, treatment and care.

A controversial plan to study the health of 100,000 U.S. babies to age 21 has some strong points — but also a host of weaknesses that could further delay its launch, an outside review has concluded.

Richard Muller, founder and scientific director of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study, released a peer reviewed study concluding that climate change trends are due entirely to human carbon dioxide emissStudy, released a peer reviewed study concluding that climate change trends are due entirely to human carbon dioxide emissstudy concluding that climate change trends are due entirely to human carbon dioxide emissions.

This review provides important information characterizing the issue of cyberbullying that will help inform prevention and management strategies, including attributes of the recipients and perpetrators, reasons for and the nature of bullying behaviors, and how recipients currently react to and manage bullying behaviors,» the study concludes.

That decision put a stamp of approval on what multiple peer - reviewed studies have concluded for years: The MMR (measles - mumps - rubella) vaccine and the mercury additive thimerosal (which was removed from nearly all vaccines by 2001) are not responsible for the rise in autism diagnoses.

There is a finely graded inverse association between age and cognitive performance, 3 4 5 but the age at which cognitive decline becomes evident at the population level remains the subject of debate.5 6 7 A recent review of the literature concluded that there was little evidence of cognitive decline before the age of 60.8 This point of view, however, is not universally accepted.5 6 Clinicopathological studies show good correlation between neuropathology and the severity of cognitive decline, 9 10 11 and neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, the hallmarks of pathology, are known to be present in the brains of young adults.12 13 Emerging consensus on the long gestation period of dementia14 15 also suggests that adults aged under 60 are likely to experience age related cognitive decline.

The authors of Nutrition Reviews study concluded that there was no evidence that eating coconut oil would improve your cholesterol, or reduce your risk of heart disease.

Future studies should take prior - drinking habits and other health conditions into account, the review concludes, so that researchers can better determine the true effects of alcohol on heart disease and other health risks.

While some studies have suggested that bee venom may lessen symptoms of inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, a 2015 review concluded that adverse reactions to bee venom therapy are «frequent» and warned practitioners to use caution when administering the treatment.

Reviews of clinical trials on hypnosis have concluded that the evidence of its effectiveness for smoking cessation is insufficient, but other research shows promise: The preliminary results from a small 2007 study of smokers hospitalized with cardiopulmonary diseases showed that the patients who chose to participate in a hypnotherapy session were more likely to be nonsmokers six months later than patients who chose nicotinereplacement therapy (NRT) alone.

Therefore, it is not surprising that two very recent reviews of all pertinent studies of dairy products and cancer risk both concluded that there is not enough evidence to say whether dairy products increase or decrease the risk of various types of cancer.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine reviewed more than 5,000 studies to conclude that adults should get seven to nine hours of sleep every night.

• A 2003 Cochrane review of 57 short - term studies concluded that «there is little evidence for long - term benefit from reducing salt intake.

January 2016 Update Thanks to my friends at Natural Stacks for alerting me to this: A report published in the International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology reviewed hundreds of published studies and concluded:

A new systematic review of the research finds early evidence that yoga may reduce the incidence of various forms of heart disease, but concludes that more high quality studies are needed before making definitive recommendations.

One cited study, which attributes stroke to excessive salt intake, is a meta - analysis of thirteen studies published between 1966 and 2008 in which most measurements of sodium intake were highly inaccurate estimates based on food frequency questionnaires.22 The second is a review of fifty - two studies, which concluded that strokes are not caused by excess sodium but rather by insufficient potassium, a finding that is consistent with the preponderance of evidence.23 Cordain ignores more recent large clinical and epidemiological studies, which have found that sodium intakes of less than 3 grams per day significantly increase cardiovascular risk.3, 4

An epidemiological study of people in Northern Italy reported that vitamin C intake has «possible protective activity» against skin cancer202 and greater consumption of antioxidants was associated with less aggressive prostate cancer in the United States.203 A 2014 systematic review by Chinese researchers concluded that low doses of vitamins, specifically vitamins A, C and E, can significantly reduce the risk of stomach cancer.204

A thorough review of studies analyzing depression and vitamin D concluded that lower vitamin D levels were found in people with depression compared to controls.

A group of researchers published a paper in the International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) reviewing several published studies on beta - alanine supplementation and concluded that four weeks of beta - alanine supplementation (4 — 6 g / day) may improve skeletal muscle mass and exercise performance (although the effects on strength and endurance exercise beyond 25 minutes needs further study, according to the researchers).

A meta - analysis (a review of a group of studies) published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition looked at 14 clinical studies including a total of 626 adults and concluded that whey protein powder has favorable effects on body composition (and is even more effective when combined with resistance training).

This article reviewed the state of the evidence and, based on the prospective longitudinal studies, concluded that «men who develop prostate cancer do not have higher baseline testosterone levels and men with higher testosterone levels are at no greater risk for developing prostate cancer than men with lower testosterone levels.»

In a study published in Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, researchers compared the effectiveness of the popular supplement psyllium (found in Metamucil ®), to dried plums and concluded that prunes were superior in improving stool frequency and consistency in constipated subjects (systemic review here).

A Cochrane review concluded that the evidence supporting the use of antioxidant vitamins and zinc for AMD comes primarily from the AREDS study [71].

After reviewing all of the studies published concerning caffeine consumption among those with known arrhythmias, Daniel J. Pelchovitz, MD and Jeffrey J. Goldberger, MD concluded that moderate doses of caffeine are well tolerated by most people diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmias.

A 2001 parallel review of 20 - year dietary fat studies in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Spain concluded that...

A review study of the nutritional needs of endurance athletes concluded that endurance athletes often have negative energy balance, meaning that expenditure is higher than intake (8).

The Food and Nutrition Board, which sets the RDA, reviewed Lemon et al.'s study and others and concluded there is no sufficient evidence to support that resistance training increases the protein RDA of 0.80 g / kg [0.36 g / lb] for healthy adults.18