Sentences with phrase «whether high dose»

The safety study sets the stage for phase II clinical trials looking at whether high dose vitamin C is effective at extending overall lifespan and quality of life for patients undergoing radiation and chemotherapy.

But from an institutional and public health perspective, he says, the jury is still out on whether the high dose truly does a better job of preventing major flu impacts like hospitalization and death for older people.

Whether the higher dose becomes the preferred procedure for nursing homes would be determined by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a group of medical and public health experts that develop recommendations on use of vaccines in the civilian population.

This supports the notion that the threshold for improving cognitive performance using creatine is low although it does not answer the question of whether a higher dose would have been more effective still.

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While it's clear that high doses of phthalates are harmful to animals, it remains to be shown whether these effects translate to humans.

High doses of this compound, the antiseptic triclocarban, or TCC, impair reproduction in rats and may cause cancer in humans, but it's not clear whether the concentrations in fields — and presumably in food — are dangerous.

In a pilot study that included children at high risk for type 1 diabetes, daily high - dose oral insulin, compared with placebo, resulted in an immune response to insulin without hypoglycemia, findings that support the need for a phase 3 trial to determine whether oral insulin can prevent islet autoimmunity and diabetes in high - risk children, according to a study in the April 21 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on child health.

However, the authors stress that «further clinical investigations will be essential to establish the optimal dose, duration and safety, and whether vitamin D2 or D3 have different effects on mortality risk, since the available trials are based on elderly populations in general (an age group with high competing risk of death often due to multiple co-existing disease conditions) and they do not typically include cause - specific deaths as the primary outcomes.»

«Mesothelioma remains a difficult disease to find better treatment options for, so we asked whether high - dose hemithoracic radiotherapy would decrease the rate or delay the time of local recurrence after chemotherapy and radical surgery,» says lead author Prof Rolf A. Stahel, from the Clinic and Policlinic for Oncology, at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, and current President of the European Society for Medical Oncology.

The next step, Datta says, is to find which fragments of the human histones trigger lupus, then test whether injecting high doses in patients will help them.

To determine whether a higher infectious dose or a different route of inoculation would facilitate infection of mice by the ospC mutant, we injected mice by either intracardiac or i.p. / s.c. routes with 107 bacteria (one mouse each route for WT, two mice each route for ospC mutant).

The study — by far the largest of its kind to date — should help settle long - standing uncertainty about whether mercury from fish, which in high doses is believed to cause developmental delays in fetuses and infants, might also impact the heart health of adults.

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Researchers did not weight birth defects according to severity; thus we do not know whether the defects of babies born to mothers taking high doses of vitamin A were serious or minor compared to those of mothers taking lower amounts.

The case was made that while decreased chronic disease incidence is clearly associated with generous dietary intake of vitamin E (mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols), supplementation with high - dose α - tocopherol alone, whether natural (RRR) or synthetic (all - rac), may promote potentially harmful imbalances in inflammatory and detoxification pathways.

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The jury is still out on whether iodine in supplemental form is safe (especially at higher doses).

Whether your goal is to get a high dose of mixed nutrients in or saving your fruits and veggies from ending up in the trash, this juice is an awesome, healthy and smart solution.

For instance, it would be unethical to dose a group of volunteers with high - cholesterol foods to see if they had more heart attacks, or to feed them high doses of the fungal poison aflatoxin to determine whether they suffered more cases of liver cancer.

In an attempt to tell whether the tumor is in the pituitary or in the adrenal gland, the vet may attempt a high dose dexamethasone suppression test (about 80 % of Cushing's dogs have the tumor in their pituitary gland).

The glucose curve indicates how long the dose of insulin is lasting (which in turn indicates whether the type of insulin being used is correct) and how high and low the glucose levels go (which in turn indicates if the dose being used is correct).

Whether it's backing the latest questionable blockchain project, EOS, investing in a project called Tether that's been accused of propping up the crypto economy, or his association with a cryptocurrency conference that Wired exposed for dosing attendees with marijuana, there seems to be a high correlation between Pierce and controversial projects.