It was better than before we started the study".
When we started the study, the participants were between the ages of 8 and 15.
Did you suspect this was the case when you started the study?
But a small subset gained far less, coming close to maintaining the body size with which they started the study.
That 93percentt of the people who started the study continued to the end indicates in itself that the regimen was not too burdensome, Dr. Nathan said.
Pfizer started the study in 1997, enrolling 7,700 patients who had had a heart attack and had been infected with the bacterial infection, chlamydia pneumoniae.
As expected, their hormone levels changed in a way that increased their appetites, and indeed they were hungrier than when they started the study.
"When we started the study, it was clear we were just doing it for fun," Michael Vollmer of Brandenburg University said in a release.
Dr. Ridge's volunteers all started the study with normal feet and lower legs, according to their M.R.I. scans, which were read by multiple radiologists.
Before she started the study, Dr. Aagaard-Tillery expected this microbiome to be no different from that of women who weren't pregnant.
The study's lead author, Dr. Todd M. Tuttle, chief of surgical oncology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, started the study because so many patients were requesting the procedure.
