Sentences with phrase «than in the control group»

«The children in the group who did a task in a way that made them laugh learned the target actions more than those in the control group who were not laughing during the learning period,» she reports.

After 12 weeks, the researchers observed a larger reduction in blood glucose levels than in the control group.

The most recent findings of the Belarus study (an excellent, large scale, randomized, first world study) were recently published and show that 11 year - olds have a 17 % GREATER chance of being obese or overweight if they were in the breastfeeding group than in the control group.

Verbal IQ deficits among children of mothers with lower education compared with those who completed university were somewhat smaller in the intervention group than in the control group: 5.2 (95 % CI: 3.1, 7.3) vs 6.5 (95 % CI: 5.6, 7.4) points deficit among mothers with partial university education and 10.7 (95 % CI: 8.4, 12.9) vs 11.7 (95 % CI: 10.2, 13.2) points among those with secondary education or less.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

At 4 months of age, based on since birth recall, the breastfeeding proportion was significantly higher in the intervention group than in control group (20.6 % in the intervention group vs. 11.3 % in the control group, p < 0.01).

In support of these themes, Wolfberg et al. found that breastfeeding initiation rates were higher (74 %) when fathers attended a two hour prenatal intervention than in a control group (41 %)[43].

More mothers in the PURPLE group than in the control group shared information with other caregivers about walking away if frustrated by inconsolable crying (51.5 % v. 38.5 %, difference 13.0 %, 95 % CI 6.9 % to 19.2 %, p < 0.001), the danger of shaking (49.3 % v. 36.4 %, difference 12.9 %, 95 % CI 6.8 % to 19.0 %, p < 0.001), and crying (67.6 % v. 60.0 %, difference 7.6 %, 95 % CI 1.7 % to 13.5 %, p = 0.01).

Several studies show that mothers who suffer from postnatal depression improve when they incorporate infant massage into their daily routine, and an Australian study of infant massage and father - baby bonding, found that at 12 weeks old, babies who were massaged (by their fathers) greeted their fathers with more eye contact, smiling, vocalising and touch than those in the control group.

Complaints of chronic neck pain and reduced neck mobility were reported significantly more often in the former rugby player group (50.5 %) than in the control group (31.8 %).

In addition, the healed bones resulting from stem cell treatment were found to be significantly stronger and able to withstand more stress than those in the control group.

Results show that participants in the treatment group reported spending more time in the shade (average days staying in the shade, 41 percent vs. 33.7 percent) but less sunscreen use (average days, 28.6 percent vs. 34.5 percent) than those in the control group.

«Three months after training, the group that had received tDCS had improved more on our clinical measures than those in the control group.

The incidence of antipsychotic use in persons with Alzheimer's disease was five times more common than in the control group not diagnosed with AD.

They found that pneumonia was more likely to develop in the people with sleep apnea than in the control group (638 [9.36 %] v. 2119 [7.77 %]-RRB-.

Babies exposed to their mothers» voices had significantly thicker auditory cortices than those in the control group, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In the study, MBSR participants reported significantly greater improvement in the ability to pay attention, and also made fewer mistakes on difficult cognitive tasks than those in the control group, which received patient education materials and supportive counseling.

The researchers found that mothers in the Family Spirit group were less likely to use illegal drugs, be depressed or experience behavior problems than those in the control group.

The children receiving autoinflation were more likely than those in the control group to have normal middle - ear pressure at both 1 month (47.3 % and 35.6 %, respectively) and 3 months (49.6 % and 38.3 %, respectively) and have fewer days with symptoms.

Overall, at 12 weeks, the mean fatigue score in the GES group was 4 points lower than in the control group, consistent with a moderate size effect.

After a year, significantly fewer myelin - treated patients had major attacks of multiple sclerosis (6 out of 15) than in the control group (l2 out of 15).

The mean physical function score was 6 points higher in the GES group than in the control group, consistent with a statistically significant but relatively small effect.

In the men under the influence of oxytocin, the amygdala, as the fear center in the brain, was overall far less active than in the control group, whereas fear - inhibiting regions were more stimulated.

«We observed that the virus in all vaccinated animals initially replicated less than in the control group,» Ulrike Sauermann, first author of the study, summarized the results.

The pups grew more slowly than those in a control group containing mother mice that drank arsenic - free water.

Those fish treated with dasatinib were able to swim further and for longer than those in a control group.

Thyroid disease is more common than in both control groups; type 1 diabetes is more common than in the group that had heart surgery with the thymus intact; and rheumatic diseases and hypersensitivity to gluten are more common than among those who did not undergo surgery.

In the lifestyle intervention group, however, hs - TnI levels remained significantly higher than in the control group (2.15 vs 0.90 ng / L, p = 0.003).

MRI scans of the patients» brains showed that those in the tDCS group had more activity in the relevant brain areas for motor skills than those in the control group.

The number diagnosed with prostate cancer was higher in the intervention group (n = 8054; 4.3 %) than in the control group (n = 7853; 3.6 %)(RR, 1.19 [95 % CI, 1.14 to 1.25]; P <.001).

Prior to the six - week period, the control group performed better than the experimental group, but by the end of the period both the gait velocity (walking speed) and stride length showed significantly greater improvement in the experimental group than in the control group.

More prostate cancer tumors with a Gleason grade of 6 or lower were identified in the intervention group (n = 3263/189 386 [1.7 %]-RRB- than in the control group (n = 2440/219 439 [1.1 %]-RRB-(difference per 1000 men, 6.11 [95 % CI, 5.38 to 6.84]; P <.001).

In this small, preliminary study, male children with autism had a mean 67 % more prefrontal neurons than those in the control group.

Immunization with the 3 dose levels was followed by a dramatic rise in anti-AMA1 antibodies, significantly higher than in the control group after a single immunization.

Antibody levels peaked 4 weeks after the third immunization on study day 90 with 100-fold or greater rise relative to baseline, and remained significantly higher than in the control group throughout the 12 months of the study.

At the Shamatha Project, a three - month intensive meditation retreat, Blackburn and UC Davis researchers found telomerase activity in participants» white blood cells was one - third higher than in a control group's.

In a study at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, people who received high doses of the stress hormone cortisol daily for four days performed worse on recall tests than those in the control group.

What's more, the amount of time that passed before a woman's next UTI and between recurrent infections was longer in the water group than in the control group.

Another study looked at the dietary intake of Vitamin K in patients with early Alzheimers and found that those diagnosed with Alzheimers had considerably less Vitamin K than those in the control group.

Studies with rats have shown those given Garcinia Cambogia tend to eat less than those in the control group (11, 12).

Testosterone levels were also lower in patients with cancer than in the control group.

During that second phase, 50 % were able to eliminate at least one blood pressure medication — significantly more than in the control group, where only 19 % eliminated their medication.

A positive relative percent difference means that the score improved more in the intervention group than in the control group.

In another study, when 80 people with solid cancerous tumors were given 150 mg of curcumin, most of their inflammatory markers decreased much more than those in the control group.

It is likely the subjects in the walking group were exposed to more novel stimuli when out on their walks than those in the control group, who remained in more familiar surroundings.

The results found tumor suppression was 50 - percent higher in the grape extract group than in the control group.

Treated students both attempted, and earned, 1.5 more credits (about half a college course) than those in the control group during their first semester.

In the PBL group, gains were 63 percent higher for social studies and 23 percent higher for informational reading than in the control group.

The program also resulted in FAFSA applications being filed significantly earlier than those in the control group: over one month earlier for high school students and almost three months earlier for independent students.

Girls in the treatment group were also significantly less likely than those in the control group to...