Sentences with phrase «year study period»

Once the application is accepted there is a one - year study period before the examination.

This month's AJCN reports that an increase in dietary energy density over one eight - year study period found a 14 - pound weight gain among women eating the most energy - dense foods.

In the study, dietary fiber reduced the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, infectious and respiratory disease over the nine - year study period by 24 to 56 percent for men, and 34 to 59 percent for women.

Student achievement in Brazil and Chile increased at an annual rate of 4 percent of a standard deviation, which translates over the 14 - year study period into learning gains of greater than two years, compared to less than one additional year's worth of learning among American students over the same time span.

Despite the researchers» attempts to recruit as many eligible participants as possible during the one and one - half year study period, the majority of potential participants (i.e., abused women) experienced severe levels of distress (e.g., depression) and could not be recruited.

In line with our hypothesis, personality disorder patients who also met diagnostic criteria for depression recovered less often at the end of the three - year study period when compared with personality disorder patients who did not meet diagnostic criteria for depression.

Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to test the association between the depressive state and a weight gain of 4 kg or more over the 4 - year study period after controlling for potentially confounding variables such as the age, smoking status, alcohol intake status, and physical activity.

In Illinois, 27 people were killed last year, up from 18 in 2007 and the most in the 5 - year study period for which statistics are readily available.

Perth's small business count rose by 0.5 per cent over the five year study period, but the number of small businesses in the rest of the state fell by 1.5 per cent.

During this 19 - year study period, an estimated 181,654 (95 % confidence interval [CI], 148,548 — 214,761) children younger than 2 years were treated.

Over the two year study period, both circumcised and uncircumcised men engaged in similar amounts of sexual activity.

In the New Zealand Study, during its 3 - year study period, the rate of late stillbirth was 3.09 / 1000.

It will enroll an estimated 25,000 male and female NCAA student - athletes during a three - year study period.

Instead of facing large amounts of coursework the bulk of the final grade will rest on exams taken at the end of the two - year study period.

Fox and her team sought to determine whether there was a link between anatomical changes in belly fat — both its volume (quantity) and density — and changes in a broad array of cardiovascular disease risk factors during the average six - year study period.

Researchers looked at data on 74 300 patient who received metformin and sulfonylurea, another common diabetes drug, over a 25 - year study period.

During the nearly four - year study period, the number of hospitals performing TAVR increased rapidly, and FDA - approved indications for the procedure expanded to include patients who could have surgery but were at high risk for serious complications or death from open - heart surgery, as well as those not eligible for conventional surgery.

More than 180 million units of high - dose opioid tablets and patches were dispensed across Canada during the six - year study period.

Individuals who experienced increasing difficulty with IADL had an increase in mortality risk that was 3 percent greater annually and 31 percent greater during the 8 - year study period than individuals with a stable IADL difficulty level.

In the five - year study period, plant survival and growth rates were low in the southern edges of the plant's geographic range — in California near the Mexican border — but flowering rates were high.

Of course, as the children grew over the five - year study period, their BMIs increased from an average of 16.8 to 19.4 kilograms per square meter.

Over the 15 - year study period, there were 1473 pregnancies, 118 (8 %) of which resulted in live births; of those, 11 (9 %) were identified as having congenital abnormalities.

In a typical urban area with a high level of background air pollution — for example, around 15 micrograms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) per cubic metre, or a nitrogen dioxide concentration around 33 micrograms per cubic metre — an extra 300 trees per square kilometre was associated with around 50 fewer emergency asthma cases per 100,000 residents over the 15 year study period.

The researchers also discovered increased use of these medications among boys, white children and those without private health insurance during the 16 - year study period, 1994 - 2009.

There was no clear trend for Hispanics over the six - year study period, whose overall rate of reported discrimination started just below that of Whites, edged up slightly, and then fell to where it was at the beginning of the study period.

Using the model, McHale and Baker could work out the most likely outcome of any English football match played over the 124 year study period — and use the results to calculate which was the all - time greatest team.

The analysis by researchers at UC San Francisco, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley found that discrimination reported by Black patients declined significantly over the six - year study period, reducing the difference between Blacks and Whites from 8.2 percent to 2.5 percent.

In a study of 423 older couples, University of Michigan researchers found that those who reported providing no help to others were more than twice as likely to die during the five - year study period than those who reported helping others.

Only one case over the 10 - year study period was identified as true acute vitamin D toxicity; the person's vitamin D level was 364 ng / mL.

The largest earthquake in the region of the Salton Sea Geothermal Field during the 30 - year study period was a magnitude 5.1 earthquake.

Through analysis of high - resolution anatomical magnetic resonance imaging of brain volumes, taken three times over the two - year study period, the researchers were able to determine that individuals with MCI or Alzheimer's showed greater losses in gray matter volume in both the basal forebrain and temporal lobe, compared with cognitively normal controls.

At the same time, the number of kids in the study who reported having serious behavior problems — such as getting into fights, shoplifting, bringing weapons to school or selling drugs — also declined over the 12 - year study period.

During the one - year study period, the students were assessed for a range of outcomes, including sexual health attitudes, knowledge, intention to initiate sex, and sexual activity.

Researchers recorded more than 600 total bleaching incidents and about 300 severe events over the 36 - year study period (red lines).

Men who ate spicy food at least once a week were 10 percent less likely to die during the seven - year study period than were those with a more bland diet.

The analysis showed that 1.4 % of all ART pregnancies over the 12 - year study period were ectopic.

During the four year study period, just under 284,000 cases of hearing loss were registered on the database, slightly more of them among men than women, overall.

The overall increase amounted to 142 additional deaths over the 25 - year study period.

The survey was initially completed by 3000 people annually, but that rose to 60,000 per year by the end of the 25 - year study period.

In the FCM arm, the median total dose was 1500 mg of iron during the one year study period (ranging from 500 to 3500 mg of iron).

In their analysis, the authors found the following over the ten - year study period:

During the 17 - year study period, bears not travelling in these family groups used both underpasses and overpasses.

Over a 30 - year study period, the Hulse - Taylor pulsars spiraled toward one another at exactly the rate Einstein predicted.

The researchers found that during the 3 - year study period, 1496 people were victims of homicide, and 6 % (90) of them had been under the care of mental health services in the year before their death.