"prior studies found" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it to refer to the results of studies that were conducted before the one currently being discussed. For example, "Prior studies found that high exercise levels can reduce the risk of stroke."
However, prior studies found bobcats avoided these vegetation communities primarily due to the absence of herbaceous understory vegetation beneficial to prey species (Conner et al. 1992).
Prior studies found that a higher HFNC flow generates a higher PEEP, which is compatible with the results of our study (Fig. 4b) [3, 12].
Prior studies found that males accounted for nearly twice as many ED visits for seizures [4, 12, 13, 20, 24, 25, 29].
Because prior studies found that both sonication and using tetrahydrofuran to solubilize fullerene increased the toxicity of nC60, the nC60 used in this study was prepared by stirring.
Prior studies found that lower education is associated with poorer diabetes-related health behaviors [ 23- 25].
Prior studies found COPD weakly modified the mortality risk associated with cold (17).
For example, prior studies find that VHA-utilizing veterans are far more likely to have lower socioeconomic status and a higher prevalence of mental health, substance-related, and chronic medical conditions (Hoerster et al., 2012; Nelson et al., 2007).
Prior studies find that firms announcing the appointment of a new chief information officer (CIO) are rewarded by stock price increases, suggesting that the market expects new CIOs to add longterm value to the firm.
Prior studies find type 2 diabetes and gastric and hepatobiliary comorbidities heightening risk of pancreatic cancer.
One prior study found that EDs with a larger proportion of Medicaid patients had a higher odds of transferring patients with Medicaid over private payer (Huang et al., 2017).
A prior study found high agreement for antibiotics [ 38].
