Compared to study participants who did things one task at a time, they were mediocre.
Robert Hooper, 89, was one of the 11, 000 study participants researchers followed for 13 years.
Staessen and his colleagues divided the study participants into thirds according to their estimated sodium intake.
Then at about age 73, 700 study participants were given a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scan.
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Most notably, the researchers did not determine whether the study participants ate dark, milk, or white chocolate.
All the study participants were either black or white and in their 70s when the study began.
The study participants on average ate chocolate two times a week and exercised 3.6 times a week.
In typical fMRI studies, study participants are told when to relax, say, or when to sing to themselves.
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Soll of Duke, See ran a research project over two-and-half-years that examined advice-taking in some 1, 500 study participants.
Study participants are currently in the process of undergoing a second MRI scan now that they are age 76.
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They brought in a second set of study participants and asked them to perform the same four mental tasks.
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Most of the others were attempts by study participants to appear kinder or smarter to others, or to avoid embarrassment.
Study participants indicated which symptom would most concern them, and the groups discussed what could cause each of the symptoms.
The study participants' change in social construal -- people's perception and interpretation of the world -- was key to this success.
The study participants saw themselves as aspiring to share equally in caregiving, in addition to their more traditional role as breadwinner.
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About 400 study participants also wrote their own ideas about what makes them or people their age afraid, scared or fearful.
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Over the course of eight weeks, the study participants showed significant improvement in their balance, thus limiting their risk for falls.
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People who scored in the bottom 25% in omega-3 fatty acid levels were compared with the rest of the study participants.
Instead, the trial will only be stopped after 5, 250 heart attacks, strokes, deaths, and other cardiovascular "events" have occurred among study participants.
The study participants haven't been followed long enough yet to detect that.
That's partly because the rate of study participants improving when they're taking a placebo has been rising, said New York University's Sussman.
The FDA reviewed data that included a clinical study of 30 study participants with RP who received the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System.
In fact, the study participants only had to do this six times to see their systolic pressure dip as much as 10 points.
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Study participants were also taught to breathe by taking deep breaths through the nose, feeling the air fill their lungs and exhaling fully.
The joint findings are strengthened by the differences in the locations, study participants, and methods used to measure pesticide exposure, says Bruce Lanphear, M.
Study participants kept daily records and answered a list of 37 questions, which asked about sleep disturbances, sexual activity and mood swings, among other things.
Two-thirds of the study participants reported at least one hour's difference in their average weekday and weekend sleep schedules, and more than 10% reported three-plus hours.
All the study participants had a family history of allergic disease such as eczema or asthma - making their children more likely to develop such illnesses.
Whereas heart failure is most commonly known as a disease of the elderly, most of the study participants with heart failure were in their 30s and 40s.
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