Sentence examples for only small studies from inspiring English sources

There are only small studies of theophylline as a potential prophylactic agent for CIN with conflicting results.

While anatomic site-specific STI testing in routine care has been evaluated previously in some countries, only small studies have been undertaken in Europe [ 7- 14].

To our knowledge only small studies have documented bone minerals related analytes (calcium, phosphate, magnesium, alkaline phosphatase, and albumin-adjusted calcium,) in cord blood serum of preterm infants [ 7- 9] or fetal blood [ 10- 13].

Only small studies assessed the efficacy of IFX in fibrosis-associated human diseases including primary sclerosing cholangitis and pulmonary fibrosis associated with collagen vascular disease and failed to demonstrate a clear benefit [ 50, 51].

These results are in broad agreement with the literature so far, in which the effects of both lean mass and fat mass were reported in studies with at least 300 individuals, and only small studies reported the effect of fat mass alone on BMD.

Three important limitations of currently published studies looking at human gene methylation in cervical cancer are: the sets of genes have been compared in only small studies; none of the genes in the different sets were compared to genes in other sets; and the clinical test performance of the methylated gene targets have not been validated by independent groups.

Testing was carried out in hospital, Intensive Care Unit, emergency and primary care settings; most of the patients had lower respiratory tract infections and only smaller studies exist in surgical patients with infectious complications, immunocompromised patients and patients with sepsis.

Legend: PA = physical activity, ns = not significant; only one study, only one small study, only one study an wide confidence interval, unclear risk of bias at study level, unclear risk of bias at study level + only 35% got the intervention, unclear risk of bias at study level + incomplete data.

However, molecular epidemiology and the clinical relationship with non-HIV PCP have been described in only small-scale studies.

In households treated prophylactically there was an effect on symptomatic influenza (14.84%, 12.18% to 16.55%), but this was based on only two small studies including 824 participants.

There have been only small, inconclusive studies on the causes of aging-related health problems among AIDS patients.