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  • noun A subset of a study
  • noun A subordinate study

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sub- +‎ study

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Examples

  • In this study, just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Foster and colleagues on behalf of the Look AHEAD Research Group, report on the outcomes of a substudy on obstructive sleep apnea in obese patients with type 2 diabetes: the Sleep AHEAD study.

    Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Sleeping Giants in Berlin 2009

  • For instance, pain or tenderness occurred in about 35% of vaccine recipients in a safety substudy of the Shingles Prevention Study, compared with only 8.5% among those who received a placebo shot.

    Skin Talk 2009

  • Was their work pointless, even though they made no commentary on the substudy validities in the meta-analysis?

    The CENSORED DIRECTORY « Climate Audit 2006

  • Or substudy X, we have 50% questions about its proper performance in the field, and it has 90% impact on the answer.

    Preisendorfer on Centering "Conventions" « Climate Audit 2005

  • We report here a substudy on watershed-scale response of limber pine in the Wassuk Range to climate variability over the last 3500 years.

    Medieval #3: Wassuk Range, California « Climate Audit 2005

  • HT does not improve memory or cognition in women but doubled all types of dementia according to the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study a WHI substudy.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The study reported in JNM is a substudy of one of the first investigations to prospectively gather evidence in a structured randomized research protocol.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • HT does not improve memory or cognition in women but doubled all types of dementia according to the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study a WHI substudy.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The study reported in JNM is a substudy of one of the first investigations to prospectively gather evidence in a structured randomized research protocol.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • HT does not improve memory or cognition in women but doubled all types of dementia according to the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study a WHI substudy.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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