Sentences with phrase «taking placebo»

The researchers found there were 223 hemorrhagic strokes among the 50,334 people taking vitamin E, compared with 183 hemorrhagic strokes among the 50,414 people taking a placebo.

Data released in November 2009 shows that when patients with heart disease took Meridia, they had a more than 11 percent risk of cardiovascular risks, compared with 10 percent taking a placebo.

Thus, if the orientation of these weeks is altered by a packaging error, women may inadvertently end up taking placebo pills during a time that they need contraception and end up with an unplanned pregnancy.

Taking less than about 800 international units (IU) of vitamin D per day, with or without calcium, had no effect on bone - fracture risk when compared with taking a placebo or a calcium supplement alone.

Results of a small study involving 96 women with a variety of fertility disorders (38 women had secondary amenorrhea, 31 had luteal phase defect, and 27 had unexplained infertility) showed that patients receiving Vitex conceived more often than patients taking a placebo.

In Baeten's study, which included 4,747 heterosexual African couples in which one partner was HIV - positive, the HIV - negative partners who took Truvada had a 75 % lower risk of becoming infected compared with those taking placebo.

And, if the garlic group did contract a cold, they recovered much quicker than those taking the placebo.

However, women taking the chromium decreased their cravings for high fat foods to a greater extent than women taking the placebo.

To give some perspective, those taking a placebo only reduced their food intake by 8 %.

In another study of twenty overweight African American women engaged in a moderate diet and exercise regime, the group taking niacin - bound chromium experienced a significant loss of fat and sparing of muscle, as compared to group taking a placebo.

In fact, one study found that supplementing with collagen for 4 weeks resulted in «a statistically significantly higher skin elasticity level was determined in elderly women» compared to those taking the placebo.

Those who took the probiotic reported reduced allergy symptoms as well as a markedly higher quality of life as compared with those participants taking the placebo.

The patients taking vinpocetine outperformed those taking placebo on several different tests of mental function.

Additionally, 1,034 participants taking the supplements (16.5 percent) had a heart attack or stroke, compared with 1,017 participants (16.3 percent) taking the placebo.

In fact, patients experience a positive reaction to a treatment even when they know that they're taking a placebo, according to a Dec. 2010 Harvard Medical School study.

According to this study, which, lasted for 12 weeks, subjects supplementing with HMB gained triple the amount of lean mass as those taking a placebo... lost over twice as much body fat... gained far more strength... and were significantly less sore from their workouts.

Women with PMS who were randomized to supplement with 50 mg of zinc during the last 2 weeks of their menstrual cycle, saw significant improvements in PMS symptoms and quality of life compared to those taking a placebo, according to a study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research.

However in 2006, a study confirmed that women taking an oral contraceptive had significantly lower sexual desire than those taking a placebo.

People who ingested 900 mg of garlic powder daily had up to 18 % less arterial plaque at the end of the study than those taking a placebo.

In another study, male bodybuilders taking a daily boron supplement for seven weeks showed a significant increase in testosterone levels compared to those taking a placebo.

Almost half of them, 47 percent, experienced either significant improvement of symptoms or total remission, a success rate over three times that of the group taking a placebo.

In this research, graduate students receiving theanine supplementation responded more favourably under stressful conditions compared with those student taking a placebo 6.

Also, participants prescribed this amino acid had less elevated blood pressure after exposure to physical or psychological stress compared with those taking the placebo.

After six months of treatment, 32 percent of the women taking chasteberry became pregnant, compared with 10 percent of the group taking a placebo.11 Westphal LM., et al. «Double - blind, placebo - controlled study of Fertilityblend: a nutritional supplement for improving fertility in women.»

One 2006 double - blind placebo - controlled study showed that ulcerative colitis patients who took curcumin for six months had a significantly lower relapse rate than those taking the placebo.

In one scientific study participants lost 5.6 % more body fat and 3.3 more pounds than those taking a placebo.

Additionally, 12 non-vegetarians took creatine with the other 12 taking the placebo.

showed that ulcerative colitis patients who took curcumin for six months had a significantly lower relapse rate than those taking the placebo.

Compared to taking placebo (sugar pills), supplementation with folate, vitamin B6 and B12 was giving people more heart attacks and strokes.

Menstrual cycles were more frequent in patients taking cinnamon compared with patients taking placebo.

Finally, in the WHI Memory Study, women over age 65 who took hormones were twice as likely to develop dementia as those taking a placebo.»

After 8 weeks, 41.7 % of women who supplemented with zinc saw a significant reduction in hair loss (alopecia) compared to only 12.5 % of those taking the placebo.

The biochemist adds a chlorine molecule to the vitamin C carbon ring, and gives is a new name «super-Vitamin C», which is really a chlorinated version of vitamin C. Next they do a one year medical study with 5,000 people taking the chlorinated vitamin C tablet every day, and another 5000 people taking a placebo.

In 2004, WHI researchers also stopped giving HT to women who had undergone hysterectomy, because those taking estrogen alone had a higher rate of stroke than those taking the placebo.

The study found that those taking curcumin alongside their medication had a significant reduction in reported depression (using the 17 - item Hamilton depression rating scale and Montgomery - Asberg depression rating scale) than those taking a placebo with their medication.

It can also decrease flu symptoms, as researchers found subjects taking Elderberry had a decrease in flu - like symptoms four days earlier than those taking a placebo.

At the end of the 2 year period, women taking a placebo versus women taking the isoflavone supplement showed no differences in bone loss or menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats.

In one study, students who took 2.5 milligrams a day of mixed omega - 3 fatty acids for 12 weeks had less anxiety before an exam than students taking placebo.

Most controlled studies have made use of a modest dose of just 1 g / day of vitamin C. From all published research, the combined effect has revealed a difference between the groups taking vitamin C and the groups taking a placebo which is highly significant, suggesting a real biological effect.

In a recent Indiana University study, patients taking fish - oil supplements were better at controlling exercise - triggered symptoms than people taking a placebo or just eating a normal diet were.

In those studies, the percentage of people on an atypical antipsychotic who gained a clinically significant amount of weight was between 2 and 10 times greater than the comparable rate among people taking placebo.

In one study of heterosexual African couples in which one partner was HIV - positive, the HIV - negative partners who took Truvada had a 75 % lower risk of becoming infected compared with those taking placebo.

A 2015 study published in the journal Osteoporosis International found that postmenopausal women who took 1,000 IU of D3 per day for nine months had a 25 percent increase in their muscle strength; the women taking a placebo had a 7 percent drop in muscle mass.

In one study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, CBD decreased frequency of seizures by 23 percentage points more than those taking a placebo.

IBS sufferers who took the antihistamine ebastine for 12 weeks reported more relief from their symptoms than those taking a placebo, according to a small Belgian study published in 2016 in the journal Gastroenterology.

Research found that those with Raynaud's Syndrome noticed an improvement in symptoms from taking Ginkgo (compared to those taking a placebo)

Patients taking memantine continued to experience mental decline while on the drug, but less so than patients taking a placebo.

Even though both of the aforementioned studies pose a strong indication that creatine dose timing is important, neither one of them had a control group that participated in lifting weights while at the same time taking a placebo dose which logically did not have creatine monohydrate.

The study was «double - blind,» meaning that neither the researchers nor the participants knew which people were taking esketamine and which were taking the placebo.

About 2.7 % of the participants taking calcium had heart attacks during the trials, compared with 2.2 % of those taking a placebo.