Sentences with phrase «year study period found»

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In fact, a recent Nielson study found that 70 percent of global consumers trust online reviews, up 15 percent within a four - year period.

The authors claimed that an «Increasing numbers of academic studies are finding that mental health problems have been soaring among girls over the past 10 - and in particular five - years, coinciding with the period in which young people's use of social media has exploded.»

Dow Jones studied more than 20,000 venture - backed companies over a five - year period and found that those companies with at least one woman executive were more likely to succeed than those with only men in leadership positions.

The MIT study found that taxing carbon at $ 20 a ton in the U.S. would generate $ 1.5 - trillion in revenue in a 10 - year period, which would reduce corporate and personal income taxes, maintain social services spending and reduce the deficit.

(A recent study by three Boston University researchers found that patent trolls have cost publicly traded companies an average of $ 83 - billion annually over the past four years, more than a quarter of all U.S. industrial research and development spending during that period.)

Using U.S. Census data, the Kauffman Foundation found in a 2008 study that «the fraction of employment accounted for by U.S. private - sector business startups over the 1980 - 2005 period is about 3 percent per year».

The study found that the children were 33 per cent more likely to abstain from sexual activity over a two - year period than children who attended interventions stressing the importance of safesex or of maintaining good health generally.

A 2010 meta - study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition looked at almost 350,000 people over a 23 year period and found no association between saturated fat and heart disease.

A 2011 report from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research found that between 1985 and 2009, IRRI varieties and breeding lines contributed, on average, 50 % of the annual yield increases in southern Vietnam and the use of new varieties increased Vietnamese rice farmers» income by US$ 127 per hectare (in 2009 values) per year during the study period.

In a now - classic study on crying, researchers Sylvia Bell and Mary Ainsworth at Johns Hopkins found that babies whose caregivers consistently responded quickly to their cries, cried less often and for shorter periods of time by the end of their first year.

The researchers also calculated the rate of ACL reconstructive surgery and found that it increased by 3 percent per year over the study period.

Hat tip to Dana Woldow for sharing with me a new Reuters article casting doubt on a recent, much - heralded study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (summarized on TLT) which had found a 43 % drop in obesity among children ages 2 to 5 over an eight year period.

Therefore, the LEAP - ON study found that avoiding peanuts for a period of one year would not (significantly) raise the incidence of the development of peanut allergy.

The study looked at infant death rates between the years of 1984 and 2004 and found that deaths classified as accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed (ASSB) increased four-fold over this time period.

One major study in the United States found that the number of aspiration - related deaths dropped significantly over a five - year period in the early 1990s when parents started putting their babies to sleep on their back.

Urinary incontinence (UI) has an effect on quality of life during the postpartum period.1, 2 Fear of UI is one of the most common reasons for maternal demand for cesarean delivery.3, 4 The muscle strength of the pelvic floor returns to the antepartum value 6 — 10 weeks postpartum in most women.5, 6 However, UI symptoms after delivery do not resolve in the long term in some women.7, 8 Studies have variously concluded that the prevalence of UI changed9 or did not change within 6 months or 1 year postpartum.10, 11 A higher prevalence or incidence of UI has been observed in women who had a vaginal delivery than in women who underwent cesarean delivery.10 — 18 In contrast, a recent study found that vaginal delivery was not associated with postpartum UI.19 The long - term protective effect of cesarean delivery has not been determined.20 Validated and reliable questionnaires to evaluate UI, including severity and quality of life, are needed for postpartum evaluation.21 However, comparisons of UI severity and the effect on daily life between women who have had vaginal and cesarean deliveries are scarce.22

«Concussion rate in high - school athletes more than doubled in 7 - year period, U.S. study finds.»

In cognitively healthy adults age 70 and older, Federoff's team measured the levels of 10 lipids found in the blood to identify, with 90 % accuracy, which study group participants would develop cognitive impairment over a 2 - 3 year period.

A six - year study of nearly half a million people in the UK has found that those who are night owls were 10 per cent more likely to die during that time period.

«In this study, we haven't found evidence for Leishmania DNA in the samples from the New Kingdom to the Late Period, which are 500 to 1,000 years younger than those from the Middle Kingdom,» Zink notes.

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.

Death rates from natural disasters rose over that period, reaching an average of more than 99,700 deaths per year, the study found.

The lead researcher for the study, Professor Gita Mishra, Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopstudy, Professor Gita Mishra, Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopStudy on Women's Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopstudy were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopause.

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.

The authors found that better self - esteem at the beginning of the study period was associated with a higher HDAS two years later and that the associations between HDAS and wellbeing were similar for children who had normal weight and children who were overweight.

A new study found a six-fold increase in the age - adjusted prevalence of any sleep disorder diagnosis over an 11 - year period among U.S. veterans.

In this study, the researchers used routinely collected data from 979,912 term singleton pregnancies over a 19 - year period in Scotland and externally validated the findings in an independent UK cohort including 10,515 pregnancies.

The research, published in the academic journal Scientific Reports, found that sperm quality in a population of stud dogs studied over a 26 - year period had fallen significantly.

How can anyone reasonably argue that the system is overwhelmed by people fighting to get a job where you study for 4 years, earn almost nothing during the study period, and finally become professionally qualified only to find yourself in the position of being unemployed, or employed only on short - term contracts?

Similarly, a 2012 Harvard University study found that men who drank at least four sugar - sweetened beverages per week over a 22 - year period were 20 percent more likely to develop heart disease than those who drank none.

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

Astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, studied 84 sunlike stars and observed 29 of these supersized solar flares over a 4 - year period to find out how often they occur.

Reported dog attacks on guide dogs have risen significantly over a five year period, finds a study published online in the journal Veterinary Record.

The study found cooler sea temperatures, greater precipitation and stronger upwelling — all indicators of La Niña - like conditions at the study site in Panama — during a period when coral reef accretion stopped in this region around 4,100 years ago.

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.

But a 2008 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assessment of the U.S.'s HPV - related cancer burden found that each year the virus also likely caused about: • 7,400 cases (some 60 percent) of oral cavity and oropharynx cancer (5,700 in men; 1,700 in women) • 3,000 cases of anal cancer (1,100 in men; 1,900 in women) • 2,300 cases of vulvar cancer • 800 cases (some 40 percent) of penile cancer • 600 cases of vaginal cancer During the course of the study period (1998 to 2003), the CDC found that the rates of HPV - associated oral cavity and oropharynx cancer steadily rose about 3 percent annually.

The authors, who also include center colleagues Yu Bai, Helen F. Ladd and Clara Muschkin, found the state's investment in both programs totaled an average of $ 2,200 per child during the 13 - year study period.

«Our study found improvements over this period, with spellings becoming more wordlike in appearance over the preschool years in a group of children who did not yet use letters to stand for sounds.»

But by studying 401 people in their 70s, her team has found that the brains of those who adhered more closely to a Mediterranean - style diet shrank significantly less over a period of three years (Neurology, doi.org/bwwh).

While Brazil's Ministry of Health said in a statement that dengue cases usually taper off by the end of May and have decreased 63 percent compared to the same period last year, a recent study in the journalThe Lancet Infectious Diseases found that there are three World Cup host cities in the northeast that are still at high risk of dengue: Recife, Fortaleza and, particularly, Natal.

A new study conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital investigated sports - and recreation - related eye injuries during a 23 - year period and found a slight decrease in eye injuries overall; however, the rate of eye injury associated with non-powder guns (including BB, pellet and paintball guns) increased by almost 170 %.

«Our study looked at data over a five - year period and found elevated levels of two brain injury markers in the blood; now the question is whether they may signify permanent traumatic brain injury with long - term consequences.»

The study found that throughout the same period, more forests and wetlands were being converted to cropland than in previous years.

The study's authors found that in the last 30 years of the study, the ice sheet gained nearly 5 meters (16 feet) more water than it did during the first 30 years of the studied time period.

Tree rings in the last half a century have been 0.58 millimetres wide on average, compared to 0.38 mm wide in the 4750 years preceding the period, the study found.

Over the 12 - year study period, the proportion of infants who survived but were found to have cognitive and motor impairment at 18 to 22 months stayed about the same (about 14 to 16 percent).

Greater odds of the prevalence of having a chronic condition during any part of the 6 - year study period were found among black children (46.6 %; 95 % CI, 43.6 % -49.7 %) and Hispanic children (42.3 %; 95 % CI, 38.4 % -46.3 %) compared with non-Hispanic white children (36.8 %; 95 % CI, 34.7 % -38.9 %)(adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 1.60; 95 % CI, 1.35 - 1.90, and AOR, 1.36; 95 % CI, 1.11 - 1.67, respectively)(Table 3).

Among Why WAIT participants, the study found, reaching the target 7 % weight loss after one year was a good predictor of maintaining weight loss over longer periods.

In a study out of the University of Arizona, researchers found that melting ice sheets had a greater impact on sea level rise than the thermal expansion of the oceans during the previous interglacial period 125,000 years ago.

The study finds that the proxy data and model simulations of wet and dry periods match well for most of the past 1,200 years.