Sentences with phrase «week duration of the study»

Of the 17 women, aged 33 - 58 years, who participated in the study, 86 % practiced yoga at home throughout the entire four - week duration of the study.

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Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates achieved in Brazilian hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based intervention.

Furthermore, there has been no large - scale study of the impact of this intervention on breastfeeding initiation and duration, although a study based in Scotland has provided some evidence for an association between birth in a Baby Friendly facility and increased rates of breastfeeding at 1 week of age.16, 17

These findings agree with the results of a British retrospective study demonstrating an increased duration of gestation with increasing coital frequency at all gestational ages up through 37 weeks.8 Similarly, low - risk women delivering prematurely in another study were less likely to be sexually active than the full - term controls.10

Two weeks before the Systematic Review was published, the Lucas study — which aimed to test a hypothesis that «duration of breast feeding is related to changes in vascular function relevant to the development of cardiovascular disease» — was published in the BMJ alongside 2 press releases and a leader article.

However, few studies have compared the effect of the duration of breast feeding in societies where almost all infants are breast fed for at least some weeks.

It has confirmed that 24 weeks is the optimal duration for a sofosbuvir and ribavirin combination in GT - 3 patients, whilst also finding that sofosbuvir and ribavirin with peginterferon for 12 weeks resulted in the highest SVR12 rates observed to date in a Phase 3 study,» said Professor Tom Hemming Karlsen, Scientific Committee Member, European Association for the Study of the Liver (Estudy,» said Professor Tom Hemming Karlsen, Scientific Committee Member, European Association for the Study of the Liver (EStudy of the Liver (EASL).

The application of 10 - year Framingham Risk Scores should be interpreted with caution as the duration of the BJN study was weeks not years and the number of participants was around 100, not reaching the scale of the Framingham studies.

In some cases, we might provide study materials, and in a few cases, we've held free, formal classes of between a few days» and a few weeks» duration.

Study Selection Inclusion criteria consisted of clinical trials using oral isotretinoin, doses of 40 mg / d or more, duration of at least 4 weeks, patients aged 9 to 35 years with acne vulgaris, and 10 or more participants.

To study the impact of MELK knockdown on tumor growth, mice were randomly sorted into groups on the second day of injection, and were untreated or treated with doxycycline (2 mg / ml in 5 % dextrose in drinking water, refreshed twice a week) for the duration of the study.

Additionally, another study tried to investigate the different effect a dose of 5 grams of creatine would have on muscle gains taken right before or right after exercising, within a duration of 5 weeks.

In 1991, a study spanning a duration of 3 weeks, held on 20 obese women on strict 1000 calorie diet showed that a daily dose of 20 mg of yohimbine increased the weight loss by 3 lbs.

Secondly, the study lasted just 2 weeks, and yes favorable results were obtained, via an average change of +49.2 % (follistatin) to -16.6 % (myostatin), however the study duration was far from sufficient to observe muscle growth differences.

For the study, 207 individuals having active rheumatoid arthritis were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 treatments: methotrexate 12.5 mg once weekly; or TwHF 20 mg 3 times each day; or the 2 combined for the duration of 24 weeks.

In another similar study, at Baylor University (Waco, Texas) found that fasting on alternating days of 3 to 12 weeks in duration, decreased both bodyweight and body fat.

After three weeks of IER however, a separate study noted a reduction in fat - mass, which suggests that unlike in the rodent studies mentioned previously, humans may be unable to fully compensate for energy deficits incurred on fast days with increasing durations.

In overweight or obese subjects, IER (60 - 85 % ER / alternate days) have been shown to produce an average weight loss of between -5 and -8 % body - weight in studies of four to 12 weeks duration with the degree of weight - loss seemingly correlated to the length of the intervention.37, 38, 40, 45 - 47, 49 - 52 Weight - loss is accompanied by reductions in whole - body adiposity 37, 38, 40, 45 - 47, 49 - 52, waist circumference39, 40, 43, 45 and favourable shifts in adipokine expression encompassing lowered circulating levels of TNF - a 37, IL - 6 37, resistin 39, 49 and augmented adiponectin expression 39, consistent with favourable modulations in adipose function.

Three weeks appears to be the minimum amount of time required for ketoadaptation; ie, studies of shorter duration generally show: low carb = poor physical performance.

Over the course of the first eight weeks, infant vitamin D levels declined substantially, after which they remained constant for the duration of the study.

All meals were provided for the study participants for the duration of the six - week study.

The greatest effect was found in studies where baseline BP was elevated, multiple probiotic species were consumed, the duration of the intervention was eight weeks or longer, or when daily consumption was greater than 100 billion colony - forming units (CFU).

Most studies indicate that strength training programs of standard durations (6 — 12 weeks) in trained subjects do not lead to a shift between type I to type II muscle fibers, as measured by muscle fiber type proportion, although the effect of longer programs is unknown.

«This study has the following limitations which should lead us to interpret the findings with some caution: the subjects are untrained and moderately young, the sample size of 50 is not large and the study period is of duration only 8 weeks.»

* Duration of a few weeks * An average dose more equivocal to a «loading» phase than a «maintenance phase» * A larger dose for potential responders who lack natural, dietary creatine * A smaller dose for potential non-responders with a significant amount of existing dietary creatine intake * A training protocol that emphasizes all phases of muscular energetics to take advantage of the ATP - CP, glycolytic, and oxidative effects of creatine supplementation (HIIT is ideal for cardiovascular exercise when supplementing creatine, due to the repeated bouts of high intensity work) * A training protocol that incorporates negatives in order to stimulate satellite cell fusion, as per Dr. Hatfield's theory of holistic training * A training protocol that emphasizes repeated bouts of work per the results of creatine studies * A nutrition protocol tailored to reduce post-workout cortisol levels, which would involve a post-workout shake and possible glutamine supplementation * A nutrition protocol that takes advantage of carb - load (super compensation) near the end of the cycle

Small clinical studies of 2 - to 4 - week duration in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) have led to inconsistent results.

Aside from the duration we know little about the exact parameters of the Consumer Reports study so it is difficult to determine if they followed the guidelines published by Sun Chips which claim that the bag will break down in «about 14 weeks» if a temperature of 130 ° F is maintained.

We will exclude trials with treatment duration of less than 4 weeks, because the onset of benefit for most antidepressants often takes at least 4 weeks.31 If a study presents data for more than one time point within our predefined acute phase window or beyond 16 weeks, the 8 week (or the closest to 8 week) will be taken as the time.

This longitudinal case - control study examines whether hippocampal volume loss occurs during the initial 8 weeks of antipsychotic treatment and whether it is associated with duration of untreated psychosis, and examines molecular biomarkers in association with hippocampal volume loss and duration of untreated psychosis.