Sentences with phrase «than placebo on»

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.»

Not exact matches

Researchers report that bococizumab had short - term benefits on lowering cholesterol levels and significantly reduced the risk of cardiovascular events by 21 percent compared to placebo among those who had baseline LDL cholesterol levels of greater than 100 mg / dL.

There was also less than one additional case for every 1,000 women per year for heart disease and for stroke in the hormone - treated women compared with those on placebo.

On average, individuals treated with liraglutide 3 mg lost 5.4 percent more of their body weight, achieving a total of 8 percent, and nearly 1.7 more inches (4.2 centimeters) around their waist than did those who received placebo, the investigators reported.

On November 8, Targacept, a drug company based in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, announced that TC - 5214 had performed no better than placebo in one of four phase III trials.

But 2 years ago, the Women's Health Initiative reported that older women taking hormone supplements had more, not fewer, heart problems than women on placebo.

Women who were given testosterone but thought it was a placebo, on the other hand, offered fair - share splits 60 percent of the time — significantly more often than those who correctly guessed they got testosterone (30 percent) or a placebo (50 percent).

As expected, at one - year follow - up, patients on the statin drug had lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels than those on placebo.

But his research over the years has soured him on the drugs, suggesting they work only marginally better in the average patient than a placebo pill.

The trial found that on a 13 - point scale, women who took the drug sold as Diclectin in Canada (Diclegis in the United States) reported symptom reductions that were 0.7 points greater than women who took a placebo.

Subjects were happier after winning a small reward while on L - DOPA than they were winning the same reward while on a placebo.

Participants who took the largest 10 - mg dose showed less decline on one of two memory tests than those receiving lower doses, or the 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.

Power output on the day participants consumed ketone salts was seven per cent lower than on the day when they consumed the placebo.

But a trial in which Kenyan women received a tenofovir pill daily was halted earlier this year after recipients seemed to be no better protected than those on placebos.

Belviq has also shown promise for people with type 2 diabetes, who were twice as likely to keep their blood sugars under control than those on the placebo.

Parents on lisdexamfetamine spoke less than parents on placebo during the homework task, with no differences during the non-academic task; they were less demanding than parents on placebo during the nonacademic task, with no differences during the homework task.

The results of the second phase showed that parents on lisdexamfetamine made fewer commands, were more responsive to their child and praised their child more than parents switched to placebo.

During the non-academic component, parents were less likely to make negative statements toward their children on lisdexamfetamine than on placebo.

By week 48, participants had a 52 percent increase in dystrophin - positive muscle fibers and were able to walk 67.3 meters farther than the placebo group on the six - minute walk test.

Mice with muscular dystrophy that received weekly prednisone were stronger and performed better on the treadmill than those getting a placebo.

On the other hand, placebos have a stronger effect in depressed patients than in those with an anxiety disorder.

Two weeks after the rats sustained their injuries, Schwartz's group found that the number of surviving cells in the damaged nerves of these rats was three times higher on average than in rats with similar damage that received a placebo injection.

Many of the trials are based on small samples of patients, less than 10 in each of the drug and placebo groups.

By the end of treatment, the odds of experiencing a heavy drinking day in the placebo group was five times more than that of the topiramate group; and the number of patients who experienced no heavy drinking days on the last four weeks of treatment in the topirmate group was more than double that of the placebo group.

On average, study participants who received GM - CSF had their maximum walking time increase almost a minute (53 seconds) more than the placebo group, although the difference was not statistically significant.

So, while the women on placebo had lower quit rates than men, the women taking naltrexone had quit rates similar to men.

Those studies really seek to make sure that the drug is safe, and if a drug passes that Phase I safety trial they move on to a Phase II trial, where that drug is compared against a placebo — so, no treatment or an existing drug to see if it performs as well or better than the existing drug.

After 18 months, the men taking saw palmetto were doing no better than those on placebo, even though the dosage of saw palmetto was increased twice during the study, to 960 milligrams — three times the typical daily dose.

A German study presented in July at the International Congress on Obesity tested nine dietary supplements marketed for weight loss — including L - carnitine and polyglucosamine — and found that none worked any better than placebos.

«We can't show, on the one hand, that it's better than placebo, but some men do have an improvement in their symptoms, and there seem to be virtually no side effects,» he says.

What the research shows: A new review in The Journal of the American Medical Association showed that compared with a placebo, people who took Qsymia lost up to 9.3 percent of their body weight in a year; those on Belviq lost on average about 3.2 percent over placebo, while folks on Xenical lost slightly less than that.

A 2002 review of the research on SAMe and depression conducted by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality concluded that SAMe was more effective than placebo at relieving the symptoms of depression and no better or worse than tricyclics.

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

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.

After three months, the LDL levels of those taking the active red yeast rice had declined 27 %, on average, compared to 6 % in the placebo group; at six months the decline in the active group was still more than 21 %.

There are a ton of supplement companies out there, all promising the best product but the reality is that majority of supplements on the market are little more than overly processed placebos.

Over the course of three months, patients treated with Aimovig experienced, on average, 2 1/2 fewer monthly migraine days than those receiving a placebo.

The most recent Cochrane review on cranberries, from 2012, analyzed two dozen trials involving 4,473 participants and concluded that cranberries are no more effective for preventing U.T.I.s than placebos.

Conclusion: The average for the 4 relevant clinical studies on humans showed weight loss of 3 pounds more than placebo.

Creatine ethyl ester is a form of creatine that is supposed to be more bioavailable, but research shows it's less effective than monohydrate, on par with a placebo.

Another massive review (22 studies) published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research discovered that the average increase in muscle strength for subjects taking creatine while strength training was 8 % greater than gains made on placebo.

A new placebo - controlled, blinded, crossover trial published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that the phytonutrients in Montmorency tart cherries (Prunus cerasus) have a beneficial effect on early hypertension, or blood pressure slightly higher than the ideal 120/80 mmHg.

of 22 studies found that subjects taking creatine averaged eight percent greater strength gains than those on a placebo, with an average 14 % increase in reps performed at a given percentage of the lifters» maxes.

While some review studies on the substance indicate St. John's Wort is better than a placebo at treating mild to moderate depression with fewer side effects than traditional antidepressants, other review studies have found no difference in effectiveness.

According to a study done on elderly male and female patients ages 60 - 87,8 those given eight grams of spirulina per day for 16 consecutive weeks showed lower cholesterol levels than those who were given a placebo.

In same study on 36 test subjects with at least 3 years of weight training experience, subjects using the combination of creatine and whey gained 4 times the lean muscle than those using a placebo (8.8 vs. 2.0 lbs.).

From the study, they found the subjects that took Hoodia consumed on average 1,000 calories less than the placebo group, and found a statistically significant reduction in body fat.

In a recent trial for ulcerative colitis, a multicenter, randomized, placebo - controlled, double - blind study found that more than 50 percent of patients achieved remission within just one month on curcumin compared to none of the patients who received the placebo.

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