Sentences with phrase «than placebo»

The result: The drug «was no more effective than placebo for pain relief in patients with moderate to severe hand pain,» the study authors concluded.

In one 2008 study, obese participants who were given a whey protein supplement lost significantly more body fat and maintained more muscle than the placebo group.

There are several power - saving Android apps that aim to help with this issue, but very few offer anything more than a placebo effect.

Overall, they concluded, fish oil supplements were no more effective than placebo at preventing premature death or serious cardiovascular problems.

However, the study did show with confidence that the sham acupuncture procedure worked better than a placebo pill at relieving hot flashes, presumably by creating a stronger expectation of benefit.

A number of studies have found that garlic reduces elevated total cholesterol levels and lowers blood pressure more effectively than placebo.

After a pair of graduate students pointed out flaws in the paper, the authors realized they'd made some significant errors, and oxytocin shows no more benefit than placebo.

When taken as directed, it's said to have been proven in trials to help promote up to 87 % more weight loss than a placebo.

In fact, those who received oxytocin were so giving that they actually left the lab with about 5 percent less money than their placebo counterparts.

Drinking raw living juice is better for your health and energy than any placebo drink on the market.

It was found that subjects who took creatine rather than the placebo exhibited improved short - term memory, and were better able to problem solve under time constraints.

Studies have repeatedly proven that collagen is more effective than placebo when subjects were given collagen and the results of their workouts observed.

So the antioxidant group gained more strength but less size than the placebo group.

They also had lower triglycerides than the placebo group, whose members did not experience any significant changes to their cholesterol levels.

In some vehicles I have driven, these two systems seem to be nothing more than placebo buttons, but I could tell when these systems kicked in.

The review concluded that it works no better than a placebo.

The results showed it was no more effective than a placebo.

It has been shown to have no more than the placebo effect.

Writing in the Journal of Hepatology, a multidisciplinary team headed by study senior author Rohit Loomba, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and director of the NAFLD Translational Research Unit at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that sitagliptin was not significantly better than a placebo in reducing liver fat, as measured by magnetic resonance imaging - proton density fat fraction (MRI - PDFF) and other technologies.

Another study by the Department of Psychology at the University of Hull is far from convinced antidepressants are the answer, indicating they work no better than a placebo for most patients.

At the end of the intervention the rowers were 4.3 seconds faster than the placebo group in a 2,000 - meter race lasting over 6 minutes (22).

In a recent article about SIBO, I cited evidence which proved that hydrogen and methane breath tests do not measure SIBO activity and that diets and treatments that strive to reduce bacterial counts are less effective than placebo treatments.

On safety, too, the angiotensin II patients fared better than the placebo patients.

Postexercise cold water immersion benefits are not greater than the placebo effect.

Some of the best support for this contention came in 2012, when researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and their colleagues published a meta - analysis of 29 studies involving nearly 18,000 patients, which found that traditional acupuncture produced a somewhat greater reduction in pain than placebo or sham acupuncture.

Don't be fooled into thinking the ZMA athletes got 250 % stronger than the placebo group.

THE MEANING In the end, the researchers found that most patients who take antidepressants may glean little from them other than a placebo effect.

To explain why antidepressants in such trials nevertheless often cause greater symptom relief than placebo, it has been suggested that SSRI - induced side effects will make the patient understand that he or she has not been given placebo, hence enhancing his or her belief of having been given an effective treatment.

Those taking the higher amounts of CoQ10 had 22 percent less fatigue than the placebo group.

from 2014 found that basketball players maintained sprinting performance into the final quarter of their games better on sodium bicarbonate than a placebo.

Patients in the serelaxin group improved clinically and were given fewer diuretics but they lost less weight than the placebo group.

Dr Jones, said: «This new meta - analysis shows that baclofen is no more effective than placebo on a range of key outcome measures, suggesting that the current increasing use of baclofen as a treatment for alcohol use disorders is premature.»

Despite the poor match, the vaccinated group suffered 23 % fewer flulike illnesses than the placebo group, lost 18 % fewer days of work, and made 25 % fewer hospital visits.

Take note: don't be fool when you see marketing material claiming «athletes gained 250 % more muscle strength than placebo group using ZMA».

In another study, however, Truvada was found to be no more effective than placebo among women in southeast Africa.

The results showed how intranasally vaccinated dogs had a reduction in cough scores, while dogs that were vaccinated intramuscularly did not have a significantly different cough score than the placebo group that received no treatment.

Bone mineral density (BMD) increases were greater with abaloparatide than placebo.

The researchers obtained brain MRI scans on participants before and after the study, and found that resveratrol - treated patients lost more brain volume than the placebo - treated group.

In fact, medications used to treat urinary incontinence were nearly six times more likely to cause dry mouth than a placebo.