Sentence examples for matched controls whereas from inspiring English sources

Oesophageal and gastric cancer cases were more likely to be smokers than were their matched controls, whereas smoking status was similar for colorectal cases and controls.

For the LTK gene, RQ-PCR did not detect a difference in gene expression between probands and unrelated, matched controls whereas microarray analysis estimated a 2.3-fold increase in gene expression.

Scanning studies demonstrate reduced glucose utilization in the frontal, parietal and temporal association cortices of patients with Alzheimer's disease, when compared with age matched controls, whereas the primary sensory, motor and visual regions are preserved [ 49].

Both cord blood and maternal samples from the first trimester were available from 171 cases and 316 controls, resulting in 145 (87%) case-control triplets (one index with two matched controls), whereas 26 cases had one matched control.

Plasma levels of norepinephrine and dopamine were significantly increased (P < 0.01) in both treated and dehydrated groups compared to time matched control, whereas Plasma epinephrine level showed significant decrease (P < 0.05) in both treated and dehydrated groups compared to control.

Ectopic CAR upregulation resulted in a significant decline of cell numbers in SW480, SW620, and DLD1 compared with matching controls, whereas for the HCT116 cell line, no significant differences were noted.

For example, some authors reported worse landmark memory in AD patients compared to matched controls [16], [19], whereas others did not demonstrate performance differences on landmark recognition between AD patients and controls [20].

Moreover, at 96 h ALH a significant number of the ball mutant cell lineages contained no longer a morphologically distinct pNB (26%; n = 172 lineages) or a pNB with clearly reduced cell size (16%; n = 172 lineages), whereas time matched controls still contained a morphologically distinct pNB (97%; n = 250 lineages).

Results: (1) The TBI group performed significantly less accurately than the matched controls on the facial emotion perception tasks, whereas the groups performed equivalently on a non-emotional face perception control task.

The 145 US patients and matched controls served as the primary study cohort, whereas the 254 Danish patients and matched controls served as the replication cohort.

The differing control sources meant that Oxford ICRF, Oxford CCRG and Newcastle individually matched controls to cases on hospital of birth, whereas Mainz and Scotland matched on region of residence at the time of diagnosis.