Sentences with phrase «sham surgery group»

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Animals in each of the three groups — gastric bypass, sham surgery, and restricted diets — were killed and samples of their gut microbe communities diluted.

A third group had a «sham» surgery that didn't involve a graft, and a control group didn't undergo surgery at all.

The other groups were either given no surgery or «sham» surgery so they could be used as control groups for comparison to the first.

He points out that people who had the sham surgery probably suspected that they were in the placebo group, since the face - lift would most likely have reduced wrinkling.

In addition, 84 % of those who had the surgery reported at least a 50 % reduction in migraine pain compared with just 58 % in the sham group.

The other group of patients underwent an elaborately crafted sham surgery, during which the patient was sedated, three incisions were made in the same location as those getting the real surgery, and the patient was shown a prerecorded tape of someone else's surgery on the video monitor.

This pattern could be interpreted as a delayed onset to allodynia, yet scores from ketogenic diet - fed and control diet - fed nerve - damaged mice never differed significantly, and a small change in ketogenic diet - fed sham - surgery mice at weeks 1 and 2 probably contributed to a loss of statistical significance when comparing sham versus treatment animal within each diet group.