The people in the study were part of a larger study on the effect of diet and lifestyle on cancer risk.
Fortunately, recently, professors Nick Bloom, Toby Kretschmer, and John van Reenen (from Stanford, the University of Munich, and the London School of Economics) conducted an extensive study examining the effect of family-friendly practices on hard variables such as firm sales per employee and return on capital employed, using a large database of firms from the US, the UK, Germany, and France.
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The estate had claimed the council had not carried out a full study of the effect on the stone curlew, which nests on the ground in the area.
This time the agency asked for a new study to test the effect of a high dose of the drug on heart rhythm.
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Right now, his team is using the Gates Foundation grant to study the parameters of the effect they discovered.
In addition to his many papers exploring the basic science of the renin-angiotensin system, Matsubara was the chief investigator of the KYOTO HEART Study, a randomized, open-labeled trial studying the add-on effect of valsartan to conventional therapy in high-risk hypertension.
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Given the small effect observed in this large study, the lack of a clear trend with increasing coffee consumption, and the fact that other risk factors are likely to be correlated with coffee consumption, any conclusion regarding the relationship of coffee drinking to risk of stroke remains moot.
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Those who are concerned about the deleterious effect of spiralling executive pay in the City are given ammunition in the form of a study by Obermatt, a consultancy, which shows there is no correlation between pay for senior executives and stock performance on the FTSE 100.
The culprit: gastrointestinal perforations, a known side effect of Avastin, showed up in five of 44 patients in the study.
Steven Nissen, the chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and head of the American College of Cardiology, will present one key study that will use ultrasound probes to measure the effect of torcetrapib on plaque in the coronary arteries at the ACC meeting in New Orleans next March.
In November the government announced an affordability study assessing the benefits available and the effect of switching to water meters, which could help people on low incomes.
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The latest part of the study, which involved about 4, 000 participants, also looked at the effect of replacing beta-carotene in the supplements formulation with lutein and zeaxanthin because of studies that found former smokers who take beta-carotene have a higher incidence of lung cancer.
Britain's Treasury recently commissioned a study on the effect of high-frequency traders on markets.
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More interestingly, the study highlights the effect of a lack of investment.
The study measured the effect of three different combinations of black cohosh, an extract from the roots of a plant native to North America.
He left a note to send his brain for use in the ongoing study of the effect of concussions and head trauma on depression and suicide.
Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana, recently introduced a bill calling for a two-year delay of interchange fee regulation, and a one-year study in that period of the effect of the proposed limits.
The study was based on data contributed by 596 patients with the disease, formally called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. By showing that the drug didn't have any effect on progression of the condition, it contradicted a small study three years ago that suggested such a benefit was possible.
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In preparation for longer spaceflight, scientists have designed shields to deflect harmful energetic particles, and continue to study the ill-effect of weightlessness on astronauts.
Research by Princeton psychologist John Darley, who pioneered the study of the bystander effect, has found no clear personality profile distinguishes the upstanders from the bystanders.
The second study looked at the effect of aspirin on cancer metastases and found that aspirin appeared to reduce the risk of cancer spreading by 36 percent over 6.5 years.
In this review of the literature, I find twenty-six such studies going back to 1983, and all but three of those studies, and every study in the last fifteen years, find a negative effect of taxes on growth.
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Sands Research Inc. an El Paso, Texas, firm that specializes in neuromarketing, the study of advertising's effect on brain activity, says it worked with five Super Bowl advertisers this year, up from two last year.
The computer simulation showing the time-stamp effect in the study is novel and original, said Joe Manns, assistant professor of psychology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
The FDA then did its own study of side effect reports sent in by doctors and patients.
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This study is another reminder that the effect of a drug on cholesterol levels may not predict what happens to patients.
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While the study didn't test the effect of shrimp on people with high cholesterol, health experts say moderate amounts of shrimp should be fine for them too.
Because 41% of scientific papers originate in Europe (compared with 31% in America), the results of this study could have a big effect on the publishing industry.
Merck is setting a good example by evaluating the drug in steps, carefully assessing its effect on patients, and not proceeding toward approval before testing the effect of the drug on patient outcomes in a large study.
Dr Nallamothu points out that the study could simply be picking up an effect of better hospitals, with a willingness to persist with resuscitation a consequence of better technology or better-trained doctors, neither of which can be detected by the study.
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