The phrase "a recent study told" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used to reference findings or conclusions from a study, but the verb "told" is not the appropriate choice in this context.
Example: "A recent study found that exercise improves mental health."
Alternatives: "A recent study indicated" or "A recent study revealed".
(5) A recent study tells us that drug treatment of patients with any evidence of liver damage can be expected to add one year of healthy life for less than $50,000, which is considered highly cost-effective.
"All snails in Europe could be wiped out," Jean-Lou Justine of France's National Museum of Natural History (who also led the most recent study) told The Guardian in 2014.
Though "avoidant," "validating," and "volatile" styles were initially thought to be associated with equally positive relationship outcomes, a more recent study tells us that "validating" couples are the most likely to describe themselves as satisfied and their relationship stable.
Conventional wisdom, supported by a spate of recent studies, tells us that literature and books are precisely the things that divide conservatives and liberals: conservatives are "illiterate" while liberals are "well read".
Recent studies tell us that even among those under 25 who have earned a college degree, as many as half may be unemployed or, more typically, underemployed.
Rational Fluid Therapy for Sepsis and Septic Shock; What Do Recent Studies Tell Us? Review Article.
Indeed, recent studies tell that 1- and 3-generalized metric spaces have the compatible topology and that all ν-generalized metric spaces have the strongly compatible topology.
Recent studies tell us that the resident pod of orcas will not survive.
But recent studies tell us it could be much sooner than we'd like.
Recent studies tell us that stem cell pools are not slavishly maintained at a constant size by fixed, asymmetric divisions, but are usually capable of expanding or contracting and, even under homeostatic conditions, may face large stochastic fluctuations.
