Sentences with phrase «studies against results»
A 2013 analysis in the journal PLOS Medicine compared 202 published studies against results in ClinicalTrials.gov for the same research.
http://showcase.casw.org/ Not exact matches
Of course there is the Cardiovascular Heart Study and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, which were the studies against which the Colorado researchers compared their machine - learning results.
The release goes to some length in questioning studies that call the benefits of proxy access into doubt — critiquing the authors» methodologies, noting that the studies» results are open to interpretation, and cautioning against drawing «sharp inferences» from the data.
«The results of the mouse study suggest that three to four servings of tomato products per week and one to two servings of soy foods daily could protect against prostate cancer,» Zuniga said.
The result has been a series of studies that aims to benchmark and track the progress of FWRA sectors against their goal of reducing food waste.
For example, in our College Football «Bet Against the Public» article, we studied why results may have been better for our Square Plays versus plain vanilla «betting percentages.»
Along with sharing the components I use, I personally try to list the components that go into my ratings, and I share weekly / yearly results at Football Study Hall so you can see how they're measuring up against the actual schedule.
If Betting Against the Public in the NFL can show consistent results — no matter how we study the data, it will improve our comfort level and the «robustness» and «effectiveness» of the results.
* While there are, as of yet, no clinical studies to confirm the results, a laboratory study conducted at the College of Pharmacy at Oregon State University (OSU) presented at a December 2007 meeting of the American Society of Health - System Pharmacists found that an ointment containing benzethonium chloride with tea tree and white thyme oil worked best against all four tested MRSA strains, while ointments containing neomycin, polymyxin, and gramicidin also had some antibacterial effectiveness.
In 2007, in an effort to establish whether certain lifestyle factors offered any preventive measure against various types of cancer, the American Institute for Cancer Research released a report of a meta - study it had conducted (over five years, compiling results from several smaller studies).
As a result of this and other studies, the AAP has issued an official safety warning against the use of crib bumpers, deriding the popular product as both dangerous and unnecessary.
We believe that breast milk is protective against allergic disease, and that studies thus far have demonstrated mixed results due to the heterogeneity in study methods.
Physiologic sleep studies have found that breastfed infants are more easily aroused from sleep than their formula - fed counterparts.247, 248 In addition, breastfeeding results in a decreased incidence of diarrhea, upper and lower respiratory infections, and other infectious diseases249 that are associated with an increased vulnerability to SIDS and provides overall immune system benefits from maternal antibodies and micronutrients in human milk.250, 251 Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months has been found to be more protective against infectious diseases compared with exclusive breastfeeding to 4 months of age and partial breastfeeding thereafter.249
† Because many of the case - control studies demonstrated a protective effect of breastfeeding against SIDS in univariate analysis but not when confounding factors were taken into account, 62,184,198,231,238 these results suggested that factors associated with breastfeeding, rather than breastfeeding itself, are protective.
However, FiveThiryEight.com examined several studies which found that around 40 % of complaints against police officers resulted in legal action, and of those complaints that did result in legal action, 33 % resulted in a conviction and 12 % in an incarceration.
Vaccinating pregnant mothers year - round against flu in the resource - challenged region of subtropical Nepal reduced infant flu virus infection rates by an average of 30 percent, increased birth weights by 15 percent and resulted in babies having less influenza, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
By validating model results against geological observations, the study indicates that changes in runoff, sea level and wave energy have profoundly affected the past evolution of the Great Barrier Reef not only in regard to reefs evolution but also sediment fate from source - to - sink.
«Our study results are the first to argue that we may be able to treat inflammatory bowel disease and protect against transplant rejection not only by blocking TNF alpha as is done currently, but also by stimulating ATG16L1 to prevent early death of cells lining the gut,» says study senior investigator Ken Cadwell, PhD, an associate professor at NYU School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health's Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine.
Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.
But there have been conflicting and mixed results in studies on whether vitamin D can also protect against cancer, heart disease, autoimmune diseases and diabetes.
Dr. Joaquín Espinosa is enthusiastic about the results of his study, «The constant activation of the Interferon response could explain many aspects of Down syndrome, such as cognitive deficit, stunted growth, increased prevalence of autoimmune disorders, high risk of Alzheimer's disease, and protection against solid tumors.»
I am not against it, but we need to conduct studies, and with the results we will make decisions.»
Van Nuys and Goetzel cautioned that the results of this study and others like it should not be used to discriminate against overweight and obese employees.
«Results from this study will help consumers to discriminate between apple varieties that can aid in the fight against obesity.»
But that was not all: in a third and final study, the team pitched 24 high carotenoid and high melanin faces against each other, asking attendants to choose the one deemed more appealing; results showed a 75.9 % preference for carotenoid coloring over the melanin one.
Their study showed it is possible to release such data to the public for analysis and guarantee it safe against unwanted leaks, with comparable or even better accuracy of the results than current methods — which don't make similar privacy guarantees.
Based on the results of that test, Beaty and colleagues developed a predictive model and tested against brain scan data collected for earlier studies on creativity.
The women's health movement — a political force emerging in the 1960s that initially focused on reproductive rights — pushed against the assumption that the results of male - only studies applied equally to women.
Since direct comparative studies were lacking, the manufacturer referred to results on dasabuvir, in which the drug was not tested against the appropriate comparator therapy, however.
«Although data clearly indicate better immune responses and vaccine efficacy against both genital warts and cervical dysplasia when vaccination occurs before age 14, this study suggests that HPV vaccination may be effective in reducing abnormal Pap test results even after sexual debut,» explained co-author Rebecca Perkins, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine and a gynecologist at Boston Medical Center.
Because fertilized human embryos are far more accessible than unfertilized eggs, which can not be frozen and stored, extending the result to humans could lower the practical barriers against creating human embryonic stem cells to study and potentially treat disease.
But studies have shown that many people avoid getting tested because they are afraid the results will somehow be used against them.
«Our results support the further study and possible development of IL - 33 as adjuvants in vaccinations against pathogens, including in the context of antitumor immunotherapy,» says Weiner.
ATLANTA — The Pentagon's controversial policy of vaccinating soldiers against anthrax has not led to serious health problems, the first results of a multiyear study suggest.
The results of a study involving more than 9,000 patients, presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2016) showed that Type 1 diabetes occurs significantly more frequently in patients with Juvenile Inflammatory Arthritis (JIA) than in the general population.
He and Wilens also note that decisions regarding medical cannabis use need to weigh the likely benefits against the known risks, which — based on the results of studies in recreational cannabis users — are probably even greater for children and adolescents.
«As a result of studying these proteins, we discovered novel structures that turn out to work very well against bacterial infections, including the complicated bacterial populations in lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients.»
The results of a study presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2016) showed for the first time an association between a specific genetic pathway and the development of mouth ulcers in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).
«Results from a former AIDS vaccine study have shown that in a worst case scenario, immunization against HIV could enhance infection,» says Christiane Stahl - Hennig, who designed the project in cooperation with the former DPZ employee Sieghart Sopper.
It is the first study demonstrating that the extract protects against oral cancer, with the results of human, animal and laboratory tests reported in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.
«These results enable us to determine whether potential treatments will be effective against patients» symptoms by testing them first in healthy volunteers and defining the best doses based on objective physiological data before conducting costly clinical trials,» said Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, the Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at CUMC, and Principal Investigator of this study.
«In the absence of such a trial, results of the PURE study argue against reduction of dietary sodium to currently recommended levels as an isolated public health recommendation,» she said.
A study presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) describes the results of a phase I clinical trial of the investigational agent DMOT4039A against pancreatic and ovarian cancers.
The results of the J - value method, which was validated against pan-national data during the study, were supported by two independent studies that formed part of the research project.
«But the ability of the vaccine candidate to raise substantial antibodies against the sugar shield in only two months is encouraging; other studies took up to four years to achieve similar results.
Wine only protects against cardiovascular disease (CVD) in people who exercise, according to results from the In Vino Veritas (IVV) study presented at ESC Congress today by Professor Milos Taborsky from the Czech Republic.
The results of a study presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2016) showed that prolonged repetitive physical workload increases the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
The results of a large population study presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2015) showed an increased risk of developing Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) among psoriasis patients exposed to physical trauma, particularly when the trauma involved bone and / or joints.
Before revealing his results in the current issue of Journalism Practice, Goyanes explains just what the paid online news model is up against, stating that» [This] study shows that online users were more likely to pay for those digital products whose main value proposition consists of providing entertainment (music) and solutions (software and apps), but less likely to pay for those providing knowledge (such as an online newspaper).»
In this study, stainless steel CMF panels are manufactured and tested against high explosive incendiary (HEI) rounds to study their resistance against explosive blast pressure and the resulting fragments.