Sentences with phrase «review of studies related»

Scientists at Maastricht University conducted an extensive review of studies related to the use of anabolic steroids and found the following:

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A review of several such studies found that viewing fictional medical TV programs had a negative influence on viewers» health - related knowledge, perceptions or behaviour in 11 % of studies, a positive influence in 32 % of studies, and mixed influence in 58 %.

Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward - looking statements due to these risks and uncertainties as well as other factors, which include, without limitation: the uncertain timing of, and risks relating to, the executive search process; risks related to the potential failure of eptinezumab to demonstrate safety and efficacy in clinical testing; Alder's ability to conduct clinical trials and studies of eptinezumab sufficient to achieve a positive completion; the availability of data at the expected times; the clinical, therapeutic and commercial value of eptinezumab; risks and uncertainties related to regulatory application, review and approval processes and Alder's compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements; risks and uncertainties relating to the manufacture of eptinezumab; Alder's ability to obtain and protect intellectual property rights, and operate without infringing on the intellectual property rights of others; the uncertain timing and level of expenses associated with Alder's development and commercialization activities; the sufficiency of Alder's capital and other resources; market competition; changes in economic and business conditions; and other factors discussed under the caption «Risk Factors» in Alder's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 26, 2018, and is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

To conduct this work, GAO analyzed household financial data, including retirement savings and income, from the Federal Reserve's 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, reviewed academic studies of retirement savings adequacy, analyzed retirement - related questions from surveys, and interviewed retirement experts about retirement readiness.

In an ideal world, systematic reviews provide access to all the available evidence on specific exposure — disease associations, but publication bias related to authors» conflicts of interest may affect the reliability of the conclusions of such studies.

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.

Our review of reviews confirms that evidence exists from high quality studies on marketing of health - related products, such as tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, BMS, and marketing of foods to children, that marketing is effective, and conversely for most of these products, that comprehensive and evidence based regulation works to constrain it.

The model incorporated data from peer - reviewed studies, actual hospital costs, and utilities to quantify health - related quality of life.

Two weeks before the Systematic Review was published, the Lucas study — which aimed to test a hypothesis that «duration of breast feeding is related to changes in vascular function relevant to the development of cardiovascular disease» — was published in the BMJ alongside 2 press releases and a leader article.

A larger number of published studies relating infant feeding to adult cholesterol concentrations were available for the present review than had been available at the time of our previous review (17 compared with 5)(10).

Seven additional references with relevant data were also included: 3 studies were identified by an ongoing OVID alert system for a related review (9, 14, 15), 2 were cited from reference lists of eligible studies (16, 17), 1 article was written by 2 of the authors (RMM and GDS)(18), and 1 meeting abstract was also identified (19).

This Executive Order ensures that important historical documentation related to activities of the Executive Chamber is maintained for study and review by future governments, historians, and everyday New Yorkers.

A spokesperson for the European Food Safety Authority says that the agency will consider in due course whether the paper should be brought to the attention of its review panel of experts, as with all newly published studies related to its work.

Such a proposal would never come within a 100 - mile radius of the institutional review boards that examine ethical issues related to research studies.

Such changes, Li and colleagues suggested while reviewing a number of related studies, are consistent with anatomical changes that can occur in the brain as a result of learning a second language, no matter the age of the learner, as they reported in a recent issue of Cortex.

«In this review, we aimed to highlight a blend of new studies using cutting edge research techniques to investigate brain damage, but also to relate these new studies to original studies, some of which were published more than a century ago,» said lead author Dr. Sara Szczepanski, of the University of California, Berkeley.

In the review, the researchers noted the mixed results of a total of thirteen quantitative studies investigating whether and how depression is associated with substance - related outcomes.

The research team reviewed more than 70 studies related to dietary approaches to regulating high blood pressure and found that the interaction of sodium and potassium is integral to maintaining healthy blood pressure levels.

In the related studies presented at the annual meeting, «Trends in Total Hip Arthroplasty in the United States: The Shift to a Younger Demographic» and «Trends in Total Knee Arthroplasty in the United States: Understanding the Shift to a Younger Demographic,» researchers conducted a retrospective review of 2000 - 2009 hospital discharge data on TKR and THR patients from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP).

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.»

A new report, published online October 24 in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, reviews 18 carefully controlled laboratory studies that tested human subjects» physiological and behavioral responses to sleep deprivation as they relate to metabolic health.

In this study, researchers assessed the outcomes of 280 prostate cancer (Cap) patients, and reviewed the DNA «fingerprints» of each patient's tumor (using the patient's initial diagnostic core biopsy) to determine if gene copy number alterations (CNAs), or breaks in CFSs, were related to a less positive response to treatment.

«Due to the scientific value and ethical dispute of this study, we not only conducted scientific peer - review, but also consulted related publishing and ethical experts,» wrote Rao, a structural biologist at Nankai University in Tianjin, in an e-mail to Science.

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.

These findings are generally consistent with those from recent systematic reviews, some of which also included trials of statins for secondary prevention.47,51 - 53 Similar to other meta - analyses of primary and secondary prevention trials, 54,55 this review found no association between use of statins and increased risk of muscle - related harms, although some observational studies and randomized rechallenge trials found statins associated with increased risk of myopathy or joint - related symptoms.56 - 58 The large HOPE - 3 trial found statins associated with increased risk of cataract surgery, an unanticipated finding.14 No other trial of statins for primary prevention evaluated risk of cataracts or cataract surgery.

It conducts interdisciplinary, peer - reviewed studies related to air pollution and greenhouse gases in China, from root causes in the energy demands to power its economy, to the chemistry and transport of pollutants in the atmosphere, to their impacts on public health, to policies to protect air quality and limit climate change.

A successful candidate should have the following qualifications: a Ph.D. in the field of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biochemistry or related field; an established track - record of publications in peer - reviewed journals; solid experience in the biochemistry of complex DNA - binding proteins (such as chromatin remodeling factors or DNA repair proteins), their purification from heterologous expression systems as well as their characterization using functional studies such as by isothermal titration calorimetry fluorescence, transcription assays.

She is the principal investigator on several large research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health to study the end - stages of dementia and has been a lead author on many articles in top peer - reviewed journals related to this topic.

(English) Multiple reviews found no concerns related to the integrity of the study data, the accuracy of the research results or the safety of the research subjects.

In my last post, I reviewed a genome - wide association study highlighting the importance of rare genetic variants in complex disease, specifically age - related macular degeneration (AMD).

The purpose of this review is to (1) summarize the current status of the field by highlighting key findings from studies using fMRI to examine task - related and intrinsic functional connectivity in individuals with ASD across various age groups, (2) reveal critical gaps in the literature which have led to an inconsistent characterization of functional connectivity in ASD, and (3) argue that a developmental perspective can help reconcile some extant contradictory findings, and is necessary for future progress in the field.

The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12

I have reviewed many of the studies related to FWGE and Metatrol and have been most impressed with the research behind FWGE in general and the purity of the products produced by Dr. Hidvegi and his company, American BioSciences Inc..

According to U of Virginia's Research News, based on her review of yoga studies, Innes considers yoga a promising therapy for preventing and managing cardiovascular disease and related chronic conditions.

Treatment of Migraine with Targeted Nutrition Focused on Improved Assimilation and Elimination Alternative Medicine Review 2001 (Oct); 6 (5): 488 — 499 ~ FULL TEXT This study was undertaken to assess the impact of three months of targeted nutritional therapy for migraine on health - related quality of life.

Hi Alice, can you point me to peer - reviewed scientific studies that show the development of a thyroid - related health problem caused by low - carbing?

The results of a study published in PLOS One, a peer - reviewed journal, found that hirsutism had the strongest impact on the health - related quality of life measures in Iranian women diagnosed with PCOS.

The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research conducted a systematic review of 29 studies related to caffeine and athletic performance.

«Given the long and established history of curcumin as a spice and herbal medicine, its demonstrated chemopreventive and therapeutic potential, and its pharmacological safety in model system, curcumin, the bioactive extract of curcumin, promises a great future in human clinical studies designed to prevent and / or delay age - related diseases,» explained the authors of a review on these and other animal studies involving curcumin.

One review of 12 studies, published in the journal Psycho - Oncology, found that giving cancer patients an opportunity to express themselves via art helped them manage treatment - related symptoms.

In 2009, she and her research team began an in - depth review and statistical analysis of all the scientific studies that related barley and health.

In a review of six studies - including two randomized controlled trials, which together included a total of 387 participants - aromatherapy, administered by way of a 30 - to -60-minute massage, was found to have positive effects on mood in people with depression, people with cancer - related depression, and mothers with postpartum depression.21 Oils used in these studies included lavender; chamomile; and a blend of sweet orange, geranium, and basil.

Weak hip adductors (see reviews by Hrysomallis, 2009; Ryan et al. 2014; studies by Crow et al. 2010; Nevin and Delahunt, 2014) or weak hip adductors relative to the hip abductors (Thorborg et al. 2011) have been identified as predictive of adductor - related groin pain or increased risk of adductor - related groin strain injury.

In this article, we will review a host of new studies that detail the impact of vitamin K supplementation on preventing these and other major age - related diseases.

The conclusion relating to the relationship of fruit and vegetable intake with diabetes is based on the Committee's review of cross-sectional and prospective studies as described below.

High dietary calcium intake, usually associated with dairy product consumption, has been inversely related to body weight and central obesity in a number of cross-sectional studies (reviewed in 87).

The What Works Clearinghouse, part of the federal government's Institute of Education Sciences, released in September 2006 its review of 55 studies of character education programs, which looked at «student outcomes related to positive character development, prosocial behavior, and academic performance.»

This study guide provides an in - depth review of terms, concepts, and example problems related to limits and continuity.

Last week, I argued that Hitt, McShane, and Wolf erred in including programs in their review of «school choice» studies that were only incidentally related to school choice or that have idiosyncratic designs that would lead one to expect a mismatch between test score gains and long - term impacts (early college high schools, selective enrollment high schools, and career and technical education initiatives).

To complete its work, the Task Force, with the support of staff from the Department of Education, reviewed the latest research on educator evaluations, examined systems in use both in - state and across the nation, and studied a range of issues related to the development of high - quality evaluation systems, such as observation protocols, growth measures, and special education considerations.