Sentences with phrase «wk intervention»

Throughout the 12 - wk intervention period, subjects consumed a 300 - mL bottle containing either a placebo drink (PLA group) or protein drink (PRO group) daily immediately before sleep.

We observed a significant increase in the percentage of energy of protein intake during the 12 - wk intervention period (P < 0.05), with no differences between groups (Table 4).

The ratios of urine urea to creatinine with the high - protein and control diets were ≈ 14 ± 1.3 and ≈ 7 ± 0.7 at week 1 and remained relatively stable throughout the 5 - wk intervention period.

A 12 - wk baseline data collection phase was followed by a 24 - wk intervention phase and a further 24 - wk follow - up phase (no intervention).

The primary outcome was the mean healthiness of all packaged food purchases over the 4 - wk intervention period, which was measured by using the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Nutrient Profiling Scoring Criterion (NPSC).

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In the study by Merewood et al. (27), the rate of any breastfeeding at 12 wk PP was considerably higher in the intervention group than in controls (OR: 2.81, 95 % CI: 1.11 — 7.14; P = 0.03).

The intervention tested by Bonuck et al. (31) yielded impressive results with significantly higher rates of any breastfeeding through 20 wk PP, with the exception of week 18 (53 vs. 39 %, P < 0.05) and greater breastfeeding intensity (defined as more than half of feedings derived from breast milk in this study) through 9 wk (46 vs. 33 %, P < 0.05) in the intervention (vs. control) group.

In adjusted analyses, this intervention yielded a considerable improvement in the rate of any breastfeeding at 6 wk vs. controls (OR: 1.7, 95 % CI: 1.1 — 2.8; P = 0.03) with marginally significant improvements in the rate of any breastfeeding at 12 wk (OR: 1.6, 95 % CI: 1.0 — 2.5; P = 0.05).

At 4 wk PP, the intervention group had a significantly higher rate of exclusive breastfeeding than controls (based on 24 - h recall).

Some important studies include: • Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet on hyperglycemic diabetic men (1976) • Response of non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients to an intensive program of diet and exercise (1982) • Diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM: The need for early emphasis (1994) • Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot intervention using a low fat, vegetarian diet (1999) • The effects of a low - fat, plant - based dietary intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity (2005) • A low - fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes (2006) • A low - fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74 - wk clinical trial (2009) • Vegetarian diet improves insulin resistance and oxidative stress markers more than conventional diet in subjects with Type 2 diabetes (2011) • Glycemic and cardiovascular parameters improved in type 2 diabetes with the high nutrient density (HND) diet (2012)

To assess whether the washout period of 4 wk was sufficient to allow a return of anthropometric and metabolic parameters to baseline, we analyzed the influence of the position (eg, first position to sixth position) at which a specific intervention was placed on these parameters.

1935 Effects of the high carbohydrate - low calorie diet upon carbohydrate tolerance in diabetes mellitus 1955 Low - fat diet and therapeutic doses of insulin in diabetes mellitus 1958 Effect of rice diet on diabetes mellitus associated with vascular disease 1976 Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet on hyperglycemic diabetic men 1977 Effect of carbohydrate restriction and high carbohydrates diets on men with chemical diabetes 1979 High - carbohydrate, high - fiber diets for insulin - treated men with diabetes mellitus 1981 High carbohydrate high in fibre diet in diabetes 1982 Response of non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients to an intensive program of diet and exercise 1983 Long - term use of a high - complex - carbohydrate, high - fiber, low - fat diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM patients 1994 Diet and exercise in the treatment of NIDDM: the need for early emphasis 1999 Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot intervention using a lowfat, vegetarian diet 2005 The effects of a low - fat, plant - based dietary intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity 2006 A low - fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes 2006 Effect of short ‐ term Pritikin diet therapy on the metabolic syndrome 2009 A low - fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74 - wk clinical trial

The exercise intervention was supervised by trained personnel and consisted of 20 - min exercise sessions daily, 5 times / wk for 12 wk.

We examined body composition with dual - energy X-ray absorptiometry, muscle strength with a handgrip dynamometer, and blood biochemical indexes of nutritional and health status, and evaluated global nutritional status, physical function, and quality of life before and after the 12 wk of intervention.

Samples collected before and after 12 wk of intervention from each subject were mounted together on uncoated glass slides.

Percentage of types I and II muscle fiber did not change in either group after 12 wk of exercise intervention (Supplemental Table 1).

Anatomic cross-sectional area (CSA) of the quadriceps muscle was assessed by computed tomography scanning (Philips Brilliance 64; Philips Medical Systems) before and after 12 wk of intervention, as described previously (28).

One of these trials was a 12 - wk study of weight loss in 32 nonobese individuals, which confirmed the loss of 6.5 % of body weight in the ADF intervention arm compared with the nonfasting control arm (36).

A total of 44 healthy young men (22 ± 1 y) volunteered to participate in a 12 - wk resistance - type exercise training intervention program, with or without additional protein supplementation.

Seven days before the onset of the intervention and after 12 wk of intervention (5 d after final strength testing), percutaneous needle muscle biopsy specimens (29) were taken from the right leg of each participant in the morning after an overnight fast, as described previously (30, 31).

Overall mood — including components from tension, anger, and confusion — was improved by fasting in a study of 32 subjects during 12 wk of the intervention phase.

Intervention length ranged from 4 to 12 wk.

Participants were randomly (www.random.org) selected to receive a 2 - wk control (CON) or MST intervention between the PRE and the POST sessions, and groups were matched for sex.

Compliance with the assigned pulse consumption and macronutrient distribution was good, as indicated by weekly monitoring by a dietitian and by 3 - d weighed food records during the week prior to the intervention and during wk 7.

Even fewer studies have measured satiety responses to pulse consumption in studies lasting longer than 1 d. McCrory et al. (80) recently completed a randomized intervention comparing 3 doses of pulse consumption on weight loss and adherence to 30 % reduction in baseline energy intake over 6 wk.

A 4 - wk dietary intervention of hypertensive subjects showed that a high - protein diet (25 % energy) was effective in significantly lowering blood pressure (131).