He did consulting work with the company for a total of 15 days from 2007 to 2009 as part of the analysis of the earlier ACTIVE study, he said.
The ACTIVE study also tested the time it took to do daily activities, like preparing a meal, and performance tests, such as reading price tables to pick the best telephone provider, Dr. Wolinsky said.
It might seem like common sense that inactive people have a greater risk for heart disease than active people, but a new study has measured the risk in terms of time spent in front of a computer, according to the Deccan Herald.
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The actual benefit may be greater than the research shows, because many of the patients receiving the placebo in the study crossed over to more active therapy.
For the first time, the AP study presents payrolls for both active rosters and rosters following adjustments for cash transactions in trades, signing bonuses that are the responsibility of the club agreeing to the contract, option buyouts and termination pay for released players.
So which, according to the Lancet study, is the most physically active country in the world?
However, analyzing the data from another study indicated that elesclomol was highly active against cells from acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Earlier this month Twitter released their own study providing insight on their 200 million active users.
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We still do not know how much of this money was actually transferred from the six countries under study (since the Nazis were very active in looting the assets they could find, and especially wanted to lay their hands on foreign securities).
In a Mayo Clinic study, kids who traded sedentary screen time for active screen time more than doubled their energy expenditure.
Moreover, an April 2010 study by ROI Research found that 33 percent of active Twitter users share opinions about companies or products at least once a week, 32 percent make recommendations while 30 percent ask for them.
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Further, a study by PewInternet.org revealed that 27% of active Facebook users plan to spend less time on the site in the coming year.
In a follow up study, the researchers showed that in older rats glucose levels in the active brain areas dropped by 48% during the maze task.
South Africans are more active on Twitter than people from any other country in Africa, according to a study issued in January by Portland Communications and Tweetminster.
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According to Ron Borsch's study for the Force Science Research Center at Minnesota State University-Mankato, active shooters are different from the gangsters and other street toughs whom a police officer might engage in a gunfight.
In a study published in the journal Neurology of almost 700 people born in 1936, researchers found physically active people showed fewer signs of brain shrinkage and other deterioration than those who got less exercise.
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A., reported a study suggesting that echinacea was no better at preventing colds than a placebo (a pill with no active ingredients).
Another study in the same journal found that 60% of Lyme disease patients lacked any evidence of previous or active Lyme infections.
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