For some, the scientific findings merely reinforce old questions and trigger new ones.

The findings from the Oxford study reinforce those from an earlier one in Italy involving more than 20,000 heart attack patients.

The finding reinforces lecithin's long-standing association with heart health.

The findings reinforced a 1998 study in which Alzheimer's patients were found to have low levels of folic acid in their blood.

"The finding of such devices reinforces the reality that terrorist tactics and actions were certainly supported by the regime," he said.

Other findings reinforce the idea that race and ethnicity are only skin deep.

The new findings reinforce the notion that there is a growing sense of complacency among groups at the highest risk for contracting the disease.

Either way, the findings reinforce current thinking about elephant communication.

The findings, the researchers said, reinforce the need for doctors to treat risk factors in children with the same attention they give to adults.

The new findings reinforce well-established but little-known facts about the demand that sexual activity typically places on the heart.