Sentence examples for preliminary study that from inspiring English sources

To predict menopause: A blood test, according to a preliminary study that used hormone measurements and statistical analysis to chart fertility.

"It's unfortunate that there was so much hype about the drug and that physicians were willing to accept the results of a preliminary study that resulted in many patients being placed on this drug at a very high cost without obvious benefit," said Dr. Jonathan B. Orens, the associate director of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

In a preliminary study that takes into account not only nuclear tests in Nevada but also nearly all American and Soviet nuclear tests conducted overseas until they were banned in 1963, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that virtually every person who has lived in the United States since 1951 has been exposed to radioactive fallout.

"Drink to prostate health," urged a magazine ad, which then described a small, preliminary study that found that men who had been treated for prostate cancer experienced a decline in a telltale blood protein after drinking pomegranate juice daily for two years.

However, it was a preliminary study that included only 40 patients.

Objective: Preliminary study that describes unsedated, transnasal esophagoscopy (TNE) in an office setting.

The August issue of The Journal of Nutrition devoted an entire supplement to several preliminary studies that look at whether chocolate's flavonoids, called epicatechins, affect various risk factors like cholesterol levels and artery-damaging plaque buildup.

There are some preliminary studies that show that certain areas of the brain, like the anterior cingulate cortex, are more reactive in IBS patients than healthy controls.

This is supported by our preliminary studies that show low or undetectable STAT 5 in the breast cancer lines studied here (Tam, Lau, Waters, unpublished).

Sixteen genes had significant prognostic value in three preliminary studies that included patients with early-stage breast cancer treated with adjuvant tamoxifen and/or chemotherapy [ 85- 87].

There are two published preliminary studies that have evaluated the usefulness of USE for characterizing miscellaneous (non-thyroidal, non-nodal, non-salivary) neck masses.