Seven of the 23 acted as a control group, and received no intervention from Dr Bolli after the surgery.
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Patients on this vegetarian diet for four weeks reduced their bad cholesterol levels just as much as a control group on Merck's Mevacor.
The two identity groups received the same training as the control group, but also an additional hour-long presentation, which varied according to the group.
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They were then divided into two groups: the first was to undergo three sessions of HIT a week, for two-weeks, while the second acted as a control group.
Working with 400 school children aged between nine and 11, the team assigned whole classrooms either to perform and note down three kind acts per week or - as a control group - to keep a diary of three locations they visited each week.
Neither company will comment on its work, but Pfizer recently published an animal study showing that a leukotriene blocker called CP-105, 696 shrank artery plaques dramatically in mice that were fed the compound for 35 days, as compared with a control group that didn't get the compound.
The study, which examined insurance records for more than 2, 500 diabetics between February 2005 and December 2008, found that patients hospitalized with pancreatitis were twice as likely to be taking one of these drugs, as opposed to a control group of Type 2 diabetics who did not have pancreatitis.
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It is not an easy group to control, as Republicans found out repeatedly in recent years.
If Levy has hardly been known on Madison Avenue, it is perhaps because he played second banana to the agency's flamboyant founder, the late Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. (The company name comes from publicit, which means "advertising, " and six, for 1926, the year it was founded.) Lvy burst onto the public scene as he assumed more control of the agency group.
If Levy has hardly been known on Madison Avenue, it is perhaps because he played second banana to the agency's flamboyant founder, the late Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. (The company name comes from publicit, which means "advertising, " and six, for 1926, the year the company was founded.) Levy burst onto the public scene as he assumed more control of the agency group.
The result was that three-quarters of the treated group did not relapse into depression: a success rate twice as high as that of the 20 patients in the control group, who received a placebo regimen.
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For example, one of the most widely cited intervention studies on soda and weight, ( Ebbeling et al. 2006) took 103 adolescents aged 13 to 18 who regularly consumed soda and randomly assigned them to either a group that received no calorie beverages for six months by way of home delivery or a control group that carried on drinking soda as normal.
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The third group, which acted as a second type of control, were released without any marking.
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Twenty had relapsing remitting MS, 15 had secondary progressive MS, and five had primary progressive MS. Researchers also recruited 15 healthy control patients free from ophthalmological or neurological disease as a comparison group.
As with the field experiment, some participants were placed in a control group, others engaged in activities that stressed individuality (creating personalized nametags, for example), and some focused on the identity of the organization (such as creating a logo for the research lab).
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Last week, two studies from Sweden found that one hour a week of hypnotherapy for 12 weeks eased symptoms of irritable-bowel syndrome in 40% of patients (compared with 12% in a control group) and that the positive effects can last as long as seven years.
Although the NRA is ostensibly an organisation seeking to protect the civil rights of its 4m members, critics such as the Violence Policy Centre (VPC), a gun-control group, contend that the level of funding from firearms manufacturers makes it, in effect, just a trade association for the gun industry.
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He said they were killed by members of Colombia's main rebel group, the Farc, as part of a dispute over control of an important drug route to Venezuela.
Again, the high-status participants were perceived as much more empathic and attentive toward the laid off workers than were the control group and the high-power managers.
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The way Shnaider tells it, by 2001 control of the company passed to him and Shifrin, as well as to the Khmelnytsky group.
The researchers found that, as a whole, the WoW group saw a greater increase in cognitive performance than the control group, though improvements tended to vary on a person-to-person basis.
But, as with politicians everywhere, this group was leery of the idea of not being in complete control of this source of money.
The move gives the French group control of a raft of businesses from radar and sonar, to internet services, as well as Racal's 22% stake in the UK's National Lottery operator Camelot.
Thereafter, participants assigned to the control diet received personalized advice and were invited to group sessions with the same frequency and intensity as those in the Mediterranean-diet groups, with the use of a separate 9-item dietary screener (Table S3 in the Supplementary Appendix).
Campaign group Railfuture said this was being done by central control and cutting the number of signal boxes, as well as improved communications and other measures.
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