Sentences with phrase «week study involving»

The company paid scientists at Duke University School of Medicine and Florida Clinical Research Center to run a four - week study involving 80 children ages eight to 12 — 40 with ADHD who were not taking medications and 40 neurotypical, or those whose functions were within a normal range.

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A new study found that participants who reported playing hours of games a week were better at a predictive task involving cue cards.

According to a scientist involved in the study, anyone who took part in more than 28 hours of domestic or caretaking work without pay — 28 hours per week is the Australian average — would not be able to handle more than 39 hours of paid work weekly before experiencing problems associated with poor health.

Those who ate nuts at least two times per week were 31 percent less likely to gain weight than were those who never or seldom ate them in a study involving 8865 adults.

Methods: This randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled, prospective follow - up study involved 90 coeliac disease patients in remission randomized to consume glucose syrups, maltodextrins or placebo for 24 weeks.

Once every two months, Elm City teachers lead students on a two - week «expeditionary» project in which they deeply study a single subject, sometimes involving extensive time outside school visiting a farm, museum, or historical site.

This prospective cross-sectional study involved the recruitment of women during the antenatal period, with subsequent follow - up of mothers who delivered healthy, term singleton infants, at 6 weeks and 6 months postpartum.

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.

This study involved 67 mothers of preterm babies of less than 31 weeks gestation and who weighed less than 1500g.

In addition, the probiotics studied were used alone or in combination with other probiotics (and in 1 study a prebiotic) and 9 studies involved a combination of prenatal (last 2 — 6 weeks of pregnancy) and maternal postnatal (6 — 24 months) treatment.

After 6 weeks of studying the over one year court proceedings on the ongoing trial involving four suspects; Osarfo Anthony, Ekow Micah, Sarah Kwablah, and Chris Handler, accused of allegedly conspiring to extort money from Asamoah Gyan, the new Attorney General headed by Madam Gloria Akuffo, is set to appear in court for trial to continue.

Following a letter from local elected officials last week urging NYC DOT to address the ongoing traffic problem in our neighborhood, Grand Street Democrats District Leaders and other community leaders involved in January's Traffic Town Hall have sent their own letter to DOT Commissioner Trottenberg asking for the release of traffic study data that was promised in 2017 and for the development of a strategy to address the traffic.

Still used today by some companies, the test involves applying a small amount of the substance under study to an animal's eye or skin for several hours, and then observing whether or not irritation occurs over the following week or two.

This week a meta - analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure.

«Variations over weeks or months don't really tell you anything about the 1,000 - year timescale that governs hydrogen,» notes Kevin Zahnle, an astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., who was not involved in the study.

Last week, a bipartisan pair of U.S. senators introduced a bill that would streamline the red tape involved in studying potential bioweapons as well as address safety concerns at the nation's biodefense labs.

After an 11 - minute training session and encouragement to continue practising mindfulness — which involves focusing on what's happening in the present moment — heavy drinkers drank less over the next week than people who were taught relaxation techniques, according to the study published in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Axford is in the process of preparing to leave for a field study in Greenland next week and recently became responsible for field studies involving students.

In a pilot study involving 13 patients with non-cardiac chest pain, Dr. Schey and his research team found that patients who were given 5 mg of dronabinol twice daily for four weeks fared better than patients who took a placebo, or dummy pill.

The latest work paints a picture of LSD and some other hallucinogens as drugs that can decrease modularity and connectivity within brain networks while enhancing the brain's overall connectivity, explains Frederick Barrett, a cognitive neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University who has studied hallucinogenic drug effects but was not involved in the research released this week.

The study involved 134 college students in Pittsburgh aged 18 to 24 who were given hand - held devices that allowed them to document their exposure to pro-smoking media messages during their normal routine over a three - week period.

Previous studies have proven the benefits of vigorous stair climbing over sustained periods of time — up to 70 minutes a week — but scientists set out to determine if sprint interval training (SIT), which involves brief bursts of vigorous exercise separated by short periods of recovery, was an effective and time - efficient alternative for improving cardiorespiratory fitness.

In the article «The effects of stair climbing on arterial stiffness, blood pressure, and leg strength in postmenopausal women with stage 2 hypertension,» results are provided from a study involving Korean postmenopausal women who trained four days a week, climbing 192 steps two to five times a day.

In a meta - analysis of studies involving almost 8700 infants — in countries including Germany, Denmark, Japan, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK — Professor Wolke calculated the average of how long babies fuss and cry per twenty - four hours across different cultures in their first twelve weeks.

OHRP is working on new rules for human subjects» protections for studies involving the standard of care and should be releasing them for comment in the coming weeks or months, the Chronicle reports.

The study involved 27 women attending two classes a week for eight weeks, while a control group of 25 did no yoga at all.

'' [Type 1 diabetes] is clearly is one of these complex genetic disorders,» involving mutations in several genes acting in concert to predispose someone to the condition, says Hakon Hakonarson, director of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Applied Genomics and lead author of the new study, published this week in the online edition of Nature.

The study involved 39 young adult men and women of normal weight, who ate 750 extra calories per day for seven weeks.

This week, a group of London - based scientists requested official permission to begin a three - year study involving stem cells derived from human - cow hybrids.

This week, a group of London - based scientists requested official permission from the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to begin a three - year study involving embryonic stem cells.

The Guo Shou Jing telescope was able to harvest short ultraviolet light emissions from the 100,000 stars involved in the study, in the space of a few weeks.

Two studies involving more than 90,000 Americans found that people who ate fried fish at least once a week were up to 48 percent more likely to develop heart failure than those who rarely fried their seafood.

The study discovered that a total of half an hour of intermittent high - intensity exercise each week, which involved a total time commitment of 75 minutes, reduced blood sugar spikes following meals, reduced 24 - hour blood sugar levels, as well as improved mitochondrial capacity of skeletal muscle, which is a metabolic health marker.

Previous studies into the effects of caffeine involved participants who were already habitual coffee drinkers and they were asked to abstain from drinking it for a couple days to a week, gave them a baseline test free of caffeine, then again were given caffeine and were tested again.

A study conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital found that mindfulness meditation, over the short period of only eight weeks, increased the amount of gray matter in regions of the brain involved in learning and memory, regulation of one's emotions, and self - awareness.

A recent study published in Frontiers in Physiology found that accentuated eccentric loading (AEL)-- which involves lowering a weight slowly during the lengthening of the muscle, rather than letting it drop — might be more effective in avoiding a plateau then changing a program week to week.Scientists conducted a ten - week experiment involving three strength - training groups, with the AEL programming noting an increase in force production, work capacity, muscle activation and resistance compared to the other methods.

Even two weeks of warning would help doctors diagnose cases of the flu earlier and urge still - healthy people to adopt preventive measures, says Dr. Polgreen, who has studied social networks and infectious disease but wasn't involved in the new research.

According to a study published in International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, reporting on the research from a blind experiment involving placebo controlled human trial, the daily intake of 500 mg of Grecunin extract during the course of eight weeks, greatly lowered the levels of body fat and estradiol in resistance training individuals, and at the same time it increased the total lean body mass and the levels of available testosterone.

Now, a study at Ohio University, which involved patients whose wrist was effectively immobilized for four weeks, showed quite interesting results.

The three - week, randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled study involved eight postmenopausal women, 48 to 74 years old, who were healthy, had no existing sleep issues, and were not taking any type of hormone medication or drugs.

A double blind, placebo controlled study by Dr. Ormsbee involving members of a Florida State University athletic team revealed that the athletes taking T + improved overall max weight lifted over a 4 week supplementation period 36 % faster than placebo.

The study lasted 5 weeks and the men were involved in a strength training program designed to increase power and lean mass.

This 6 OXO study was a 8 week trial supplementing either a 300mg / day or 600mg / day of 6OXO that involved 16 healthy, active males.

In the most recent study published in Gynecological Endocrinology, a randomized double - blind clinical trial involving 94 women with PCOS compared NAC 600 mg, three times a day with 500 mg oral metformin, three times a day for 24 weeks.

Another study involved participants in an 8 - week program of intermittent fasting along with calorie restrictions.

The study involved 62 adults with a high body mass index, each of whom was assigned to 12 weeks of treatment with Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17 or a placebo.

Another study involving 16 athletes, released just a couple of weeks ago, found similar results.

In an analysis involving 347 healthy adults, researchers from the Mayo Clinic found that study participants who skipped breakfast were more likely to be obese than those who ate it frequently, defined as five to seven times a week.

In the 16 - year - long Iowa Women's Health Study — which involved 34,480 postmenopausal women — consuming strawberries and blueberries once a week was associated with a significant reduction in death from heart disease.

One 12 - week, placebo - controlled study involving participants with moderate sun damage showed a significant improvement in the appearance of fine lines, skin texture and tone.