Example sentences of "compared [prep] women " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the trials , women with breast cancer who had orthodox alone were apparently ‘ matched ’ for certain variables ( such as severity of disease , year of diagnosis , age , number of previous relapses , and the type of conventional treatment ) and compared with women with breast cancer who had both orthodox treatment and the alternative treatment offered at Bristol . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the risk of endometriosis was low in women currently taking oral contraceptives ( relative risk 0.4 ; 95% confidence interval 0.2 to 0.7 ) , but higher in women who had formerly taken them ( 1.8 ; 1.0 to 3.1 in women who had stopped 25–48 months previously ) compared with women who had never taken the pill . |
| 3 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 4 | As with other respiratory and upper gastrointestinal tumours the male predominance seen is probably a result of the heavy smoking and drinking habits of men compared with women . |
| 5 | When women treated by cholecystectomy were compared with women having newly discovered , asymptomatic gall stones , they more often described defecation as urgent but had no other detectable differences . |
| 6 | In fact , owners of land or factories can do things non-owners can not , as can men with weapons compared to those without , or even men as compared to women . |
| 7 | Compared to women with gall stones , women with cholecystectomy showed no difference in frequency of defecation , stool form score or estimated intestinal transit time ( Table III ) . |
| 8 | In their prospective study of 400 working-class women with children in North London , Brown and his colleagues ( 1987 ) found a threefold increased risk of depression to follow severe events which arose from a long-standing social difficulty compared to women experiencing the same kind of event but without such a prior history . |