Sentences with phrase «week study comparing»

In an eight - week study comparing the benefits of both whey and rice protein supplementation, researchers concluded that both offered nearly the same benefit.

In a two - week study comparing a low - calorie diet to a non-calorie-restricted, low - carb diet in 18 adults with NAFLD, those in the low - carb group experienced a 55 % reduction in liver fat vs. a 26 % for the low - fat group (22).

Not exact matches

One study found that college students who drank four to five drinks at a time more than once a week were more likely to overeat after drinking compared to students who drank one to two drinks at a time (18).

This study found also that stations which provided only free air - time for religious programs tended to broadcast more religious programs during the week of the survey than did stations which sold air - time for programs (an average of 6.08 programs per station compared to 4.51 programs per station).

In terms of effect on consumption, Ng et al estimated a reduction in sugar sweetened drink intake of 104 mL (10 %) per person per week compared with our predicted reduction of around 15 %.19 The substitution effects predicted in Ng et al's study are very slight, and as a result the predicted change in energy intake is larger (net decrease of 24 kJ / person / day compared with our estimate of 17 kJ / person / day).

The 12 week clinical study from the US of 303 participants is the first prospective, randomised clinical trial to directly compare the effects of water and diet beverages on weight loss within a behavioural weight loss program.

This study compared the performance of male athletes when using a typical «carb loading» method before a time trial run, and then by substituting a portion of «Omega 3 chia seed loading» and performing the same test two weeks later.

One study found that mothers who stayed in hospitals that did not follow any of the 10 Steps were 8 times as likely to stop breastfeeding before their infants were 6 weeks old compared to mothers who stayed at hospitals that followed 6 of the steps.

Women in our study had a high rate of breastfeeding at 6 weeks postpartum (69 %) compared with other Australian data showing that 58 % of all infants were fully breastfed at 2 months of age.50 This may have been owing to a higher motivation of women in our cohort, and a good level of support and continuity of midwifery care, which has been shown to enhance rates of breastfeeding.

Additionally, the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study concluded that consumers who eat fast food two or more times a week had a one - hundred percent increase in their insulin resistance compared to consumers who ate at fast food establishments less than once a week.

In one study comparing two groups of preterm infants, researchers found that children who'd received skin - to - skin contact in the first weeks postpartum had developed, by age 10, more healthy stress response systems, improved sleep patterns, and better cognitive control (Feldman et al 2014).

One study found that babies born after epidurals were less likely to be fully breastfed on hospital discharge; this was an especial risk for epidural mothers whose babies did not feed in the first hour after birth.112 A Finnish survey records that 67 percent of women who had labored with an epidural reported partial or full formula - feeding in the first 12 weeks compared to 29 percent of nonepidural mothers; epidural mothers were also more likely to report having «not enough milk.»

Likewise in this study, the importance of good nutrition for breastfeeding and for adults in general was not as high a priority for fathers compared with topics such as «what to expect in the first 4 weeks».

A study in 2013 involving 106 participating centers in 25 countries came to the conclusion that, in a twin pregnancy of a gestational age between 32 weeks 0 days and 38 weeks 6 days, and the first twin is in cephalic presentation, planned Cesarean section does not significantly decrease or increase the risk of fetal or neonatal death or serious neonatal disability, as compared with planned vaginal delivery.

In the study, researchers compared children whose mothers took folic acid supplements four weeks before... and eight weeks into their pregnancies with children whose mothers did not take the supplements.

Study characteristics: This review analysed studies that compared outcomes of full - term babies (born at ≥ 37 weeks of pregnancy) who were given formula milk enriched with LCPUFA versus outcomes of full - term babies fed formula milk without enrichment with LCPUFA.

Studies comparing human milk from preterm mothers with that from term mothers suggest that these immunologic benefits may be even greater for preterm infants because secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA), lysozyme, lactoferrin, and interferon are found in greater concentrations in preterm human milk compared with term milk.2 — 4 Very low birth weight (VLBW) infants do not benefit from the transplacental transfer of maternal immunoglobulins that occurs primarily after 34 weeks of gestation.5 These infants are exposed to abundant pathogenic organisms during neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization and may benefit from the host defense factors present in preterm human milk.6 — 9

Studies show that women who receive commercial formula bags when they leave the hospital after giving birth are less likely to breastfeed for more than 10 weeks compared to women who have not received them.

In a study, researchers compared the breast milk of mothers with babies born prematurely — between 28 and 37 weeks gestation — and at term — after 38 weeks.

And a rather shocking and controversial 2010 study reported that newborns who were given cow's milk formula within two weeks of birth had 19 times lower odds of developing a cow's milk allergy compared with newborns who were not.

A separate study found infants whose gestation lengths were less than 38 weeks had microbiome communities that were low in Bifidobacterium and took 3 to 6 months to reach a normal Bifidiobacterium - rich community as compared to infants born at 40 or more weeks [9].

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.

A later study carried out in London5 randomised 2475 women to receive routine Doppler ultrasound examination of the umbilical and uterine arteries at 19 - 22 weeks and at 32 weeks of pregnancy compared with women who received standard care without Doppler ultrasound.

According to the study, a group of at - risk infants who ate 2 grams of peanut three times a week had significantly less allergy to peanuts at 5 years of age compared with infants who avoided peanut.

The Chinese study found that women who had an epidural for pain relief during labor for a vaginal delivery had a 14 percent rate of depression at six weeks postpartum compared to nearly 35 percent rate of depression for those who did not have the pain relief.

Compare it to college finals week, in which the students who have worked and studied diligently all year are relaxed and those who haven't engage in all - night cramming sessions.

The study of more than 600 smokers compared three different doses of the drug and a placebo over seven weeks.

A study comparing results from computer - based versus paper - and - pencil tests of students» energy knowledge was presented at the annual AERA meeting and highlighted in the «Curriculum Matters» blog of Education Week.

The study found the prevalence of preterm birth — defined as delivery before 37 weeks» gestation — was 14.6 percent for women diagnosed with a sleep disorder during pregnancy, compared to 10.9 percent for women who were not.

When the researchers gave concentrated broccoli sprout extracts to 97 human type 2 diabetes patients in a 12 - week randomized placebo - controlled trial, obese participants who entered the study with dysregulated disease demonstrated significantly decreased fasting blood glucose levels compared to controls.

Compared with 1997 (the first EPIPAGE study), the proportion of infants surviving without severe morbidity has increased by 14 % for infants born between the 25th and 29th weeks and by 6 % for infants born between 30 and 31 weeks» gestation,» explains Pierre - Yves Ancel, leader of the Inserm Obstetrical, Perinatal, and Pediatric Epidemiology Team behind the study.

Children with autism who participated in a 10 - week, 40 - hour, theatre - based program showed significant differences in social ability compared to a group of children with autism who did not participate, according to a Vanderbilt study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

One study found that youth who engaged in physical activity once a week compared to none had 1.4 times the odds of being happy if they were normal weight, and 1.5 times the odds if overweight.

Although modern medicine means that many of these premature babies now survive, recent studies have shown differences in their brain structure compared with babies born after 37 weeks, as well as an increased risk of emotional and behavioural problems in childhood.

In their study, the researchers showed that already at the age of six weeks in the mice with a rapid weight gain, the DPP4 gene was less methylated at four specific loci, i.e. epigenetically altered, compared to the other mice.

Yet if a school child's parents replace a bedtime story with a math discussion even one night a week, the child's math skills may improve markedly compared with peers who listen to nonmathematical stories, a new study shows.

This week, Williams published a study in Royal Society Open Science that compared the activity levels of male and female squirrels.

Another paper in the same edition of the NEJM reports two additional studies of sofosbuvir - containing therapy, one evaluating a 12 week regimen of peginterferon, ribavirin and sofosbuvir in patients with genotypes 1, 4, 5 and 6 who have never been treated before; the other reporting results of a trial comparing 24 weeks of peginterferon and ribavin with 12 weeks of sofosbuvir and ribavirin in treatment naïve patients with genotypes 2 and 3.

The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, compared several social and demographic variables to the way people describe the rules for displaying emotion in dozens of countries.

Researchers in US and Canada funded by the Cooperative Studies Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research compared the costs and benefits of etanercept - methotrexate first versus triple therapy first in 353 patients enrolled in the RACAT trial who continued to have uncontrolled symptoms of RA after at least 12 weeks of methotrexate therapy.

For the Muscle Tendon Tissue Unit Repair and Reinforcement Reconstructive Surgery Research Study, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and is continuing to enroll new participants, five men who had at least six months earlier lost at least 25 percent of leg muscle volume and function compared to the uninjured limb underwent a customized regimen of physical therapy for 12 to 26 weeks until their function and strength plateaued for a minimum of two weeks.

The mindfulness group drank 9.3 fewer units of alcohol (roughly equivalent to three pints of beer) in the following week compared to the week preceding the study, while there was no significant reduction in alcohol consumption among those who had learned relaxation techniques.

«For the first time, our study points to a risk difference between drinking daily and drinking five or six days a week in the general male population, since earlier studies were conducted on alcohol misusers and patients referred for liver disease and compared daily drinking to «binge pattern» or «episodic» drinking,» observed lead investigator Gro Askgaard, MD, of the Department of Hepatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Reduced - nicotine cigarettes were beneficial in reducing nicotine exposure and dependence, and also the number of cigarettes smoked per day, when compared with standard - nicotine cigarettes in a six - week study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

A 2005 study showed that 92 percent of nearly 3,000 women with breast cancer who walked or did other exercise three to five hours weekly were still alive 10 years after their diagnosis, compared with 86 percent of those who exercised less than an hour a week.

The new study, published this week in the journal Science Advances, compared data from forest surveys across the Amazon with maps of current and projected deforestation to estimate how many tree species have been lost, and where.

His group is now preparing a more ambitious study that compares the microbiomes of people who completely avoid emulsifiers for several weeks with those on a standard Western diet.

Moderate physical activity for participants increased 1.4 days per week compared with controls who actually decreased their activity over the study period by about half a day per week.

In one recent study, Duffy found that supertasters consume alcoholic beverages, on average, only two to three times a week, compared with five or six times for the average nontasters.

Among cigarette smokers not willing or able to quit smoking in the next month but willing to reduce with the goal of quitting in the next 3 months, use of the nicotine addiction medication varenicline for 24 weeks compared with placebo produced greater reductions in smoking prior to quitting and increased smoking cessation rates at the end of treatment and at 1 year, according to a study in the February 17 issue of JAMA.