Sentences with phrase «than their baseline levels»

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The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

Studies suggest that the initiative has a bigger impact in communities where women had a lower baseline education level than in areas where women are more educated.

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.

For those with the highest baseline uric acid levels — more than 7 milligrams per deciliter — for example, the decrease was as high as 1.3 milligrams per deciliter.

The nonathlete controls had lower levels of tau in their blood than the athletes at baseline, supporting the idea that exercise may lead to naturally higher tau blood levels.

But they are still more than 8 per cent above 1990 levels, the international baseline.

Hospital - level norepinephrine shortage was defined as any quarterly (3 - month) interval in 2011 during which the hospital rate of norepinephrine use decreased by more than 20 percent from baseline.

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.

Notably, while baseline antibody levels among children in this trial were about 10-fold to 50-fold lower than pre-immunization levels in adults at this same site, children achieved post-immunization AMA1 antibody levels that were at least as high as those seen in vaccinated adults [17], [20].

It might turn out that proteins such as NF - L could help make return - to - play decisions, but, Petraglia said, it may well be the case that proteins take longer to clear out of one athlete than another, mandating that each player have a well - defined baseline for comparison, and that specific levels deemed dangerous be rigorously calibrated.

On the other hand, triglyceride levels were solely reduced in male subjects who, at baseline, possessed higher fasting levels than their female counter - parts.33

This article reviewed the state of the evidence and, based on the prospective longitudinal studies, concluded that «men who develop prostate cancer do not have higher baseline testosterone levels and men with higher testosterone levels are at no greater risk for developing prostate cancer than men with lower testosterone levels.»

Canakinumab significantly reduced high - sensitivity C - reactive protein levels from baseline, as compared with placebo, without reducing the LDL cholesterol level, and the 150 - mg dose resulted in a significantly lower incidence of recurrent cardiovascular events than placebo.

What this means is that when you exercise with your insulin at a baseline level, your body is able to both mobilize and burn more fat during your workouts than when insulin levels are elevated.

Your baseline level should feel harder than your warm up, taking you just out of your comfort zone.

What this means is when you exercise with your insulin at a baseline level, your body is able to both mobilize and burn more fat during your workout than when insulin levels are elevated.

Plant foods are naturally lower in methionine, however we can still meet our baseline methionine needs from these plant foods without the need for supplements or animal products that will supply a greater quantity of methionine that add up to higher levels than we need.

Among participants who returned baseline questionnaires, we excluded those who had a history of cancer (except nonmelanoma skin cancer), CVD, or diabetes at baseline, left more than 10 items blank on the baseline FFQ in the NHS and more than 70 items blank in the HPFS, or reported implausible energy intake levels (< 500 or > 3500 kcal / d for women, or < 800 or > 4200 kcal / d for men).

It has some cache to it, a baseline level of interest that can drive people to the theater to see if he can recapture the magic of what people honestly probably think of more as a Swell Season movie than a John Carney movie.

Results from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 show that more than one in four 15 - year - old students in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries did not attain a baseline level of proficiency in at least one of the three core subjects PISA assesses: Reading, Mathematics and Science.

Baseline levels of dopamine are lowest during adolescence, but its ecstasy - triggering release in response to «sex, drugs, and rock and roll» and novelty, giggling, texting, chocolate cake, rugby, and risk, is higher than at any other stage of human development.

The results in maths show that 44 per cent of the students tested do not meet the baseline identified in ACARA's Measurement Framework for Schooling in Australia 2012 (2013); which outlines a «challenging but reasonable expectation of student achievement at a year level, with students needing to demonstrate more than the elementary skills expected at this level.»

At the middle school level, pilot school students have somewhat lower baseline scores than students at traditional schools, while the baseline scores of charter students are higher than those of students in traditional BPS schools.

More than 1 in 6 students in the U.S. do not reach the baseline level of proficiency in financial literacy.

The proportion of moderately - performing students taking 8th grade algebra increased from less than half to nearly 90 %, then reverted to baseline levels, in the span of just six age cohorts.

Healthy young dogs (less than 15 - 18 months of age) should have thyroid baseline levels for all parameters in the upper 1/2 to 1/3 of the adult normal ranges.

Seeing this as a baseline, positive CO2 feedback from temperature changes, or a running out of capacity for greater uptake from CO2 accumulation, would be seen as adding more CO2 to the air in addition to anthropogenic releases, but it would have to surpass some level before it would result in a total atmospheric accumulation of CO2 greater than anthropogenic emissions (first, as a rate, and later, cummulative change).

The reduction in CO2 - cooling (of a layer between TOA and some other level) assumes the increased downward emission at the base of the layer from the non-CO2 absorber within the layer is greater than the decreased OLR at TOA, which is the absorption of radiation from below the layer minus the emission from the layer reaching TOA (refering to the «baseline effects» that would remain if the preexisting CO2 were removed).

A 2015 study found that humans activities are driving species loss at a rate 100 times faster than historical baseline levels — which the researchers behind the study characterized as...

They estimate that the world would warm by 3.6 degrees Celsius (6.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100 when compared with pre-industrial levels if Trump quits Paris, more than the 3.3 - degree baseline scenario.

The energy system reference cases used for future greenhouse gas (GHG) emission pathways in climate change research are a case in point: baseline emission scenarios commonly project levels of coal combustion many times higher than current reserve estimates by the year 2100.

Baseline scenarios (scenarios without explicit additional efforts to constrain emissions) exceed 450 parts per million (ppm) CO2eq by 2030 and reach CO2eq concentration levels between 750 and more than 1300 ppm CO2eq by 2100.

The Clean Power Plan, which EIA expects to cut emissions 25 % from 2005 levels by 2020 (see table 5 above), gets the American economy close to the lower end of the IPCC's target, but it's measured from the 2005 baseline rather than the IPCC's 1990 date, when American emissions were lower.

Remember that compared to the most commonly used international baseline of cuts from 1990 levels by 2020, the US commitment as put into the Copenhagen accord (contingent upon action in Congress) is effectively less than 5 % below 1990 levels — when 40 % is what is needed.

[30] The plaintiff used her Fitbit data to show that her post-injury activity levels were lower than the baseline for someone of the same age and profession to prove she deserved compensation for the injury.

Changes in rates of child diagnoses from baseline to 3 months as a function of mother's remission and subsequently mother's level of response were analyzed using a repeated measures analysis with binary response data, using generalized estimating equation (GEE) methods.27 A linear probability model with an identity link function (rather than a logit - link function) was used to model interactions on the additive scale28 and to model a dose - response function using rates (rather than odds) as the outcome measure because we considered risk differences to be a more relevant measure than odds ratios in our study.

The analytical sample was from relatively more privileged family backgrounds than the baseline sample, and there were significant differences in the levels of children's cognitive functioning at the age of 5 years.

Parents living in CfC sites reported significantly lower levels of hostile or harsh parenting and higher levels of parental self - efficacy than parents in comparison sites, but not when baseline parenting was controlled.

The multilevel models that did not control for baseline functioning suggest that children in low - income and those not in low - income households had significantly lower levels of physical functioning than children in CfC sites than in comparison sites.

There was a significant difference in attachment anxiety between groups, such that those who completed the study had higher levels of baseline anxiety than those who did not, t (75) = -2.11, p =.038.

Children who got reliably worse had on average lower baseline levels of conduct problems (MECBI = 103.94) than children who either showed no reliable change (MECBI = 125.52) or who got reliably better (MECBI = 144.09).

Trajectory analyses revealed that maternal resources were associated with baseline levels of parenting rather than changes in trajectories over time.

Within the Outreach model, parents with lower levels of well - being as reported at baseline appeared to show greater improvements in parenting efficacy than parents with higher levels of well - being.