Sentences with phrase «across ethnic groups»

The relations of BMI to both percentage body fat and body fat distribution have been shown to vary across ethnic groups (32 — 34).

In the city, the lack of improvement held true across ethnic groups and also among lower - income students.

Except for opinions on school choice issues, differences across ethnic groups are generally smaller than those between public school employees and those who have never been employed by the schools.

Results Across ethnic groups, adolescent - reported mother and father acceptance were associated with better diabetes management, whereas mother - reported conflict was associated with poorer diabetes management and more depressive symptoms.

«Despite possible similarities in the relationship between early menarche and sexual and reproductive health in low -, middle - and high - income countries, the factors associated with early menarche and early marriage may differ across ethnic groups within the same country,» noted Mobolaji Ibitoye, MPH, DrPH candidate in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School and lead author.

In general, parenting practices contributed more to the prediction of oppositional and aggressive behavior problems than to hyperactive behavior problems, and parenting influences were fairly consistent across ethnic groups and sex.»

The increase is seen across all ethnic groups.

«The response was surprisingly positive across all ethnic groups,» said VJ Periyakoil, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine, who is the lead and senior author of the study.

One in 40 people carry the defective gene for spinal muscular atrophy, and as many as one in 6,000 babies in the world across all ethnic groups is born with the disorder.

The team found that mutations in a gene called HLA - DRB1 are associated with RA risk in Arab populations just as is the case with Europeans and East Asians, suggesting broad similarities in the genetic structure of RA across ethnic groups.

National leaders should exhibit this same sense of value — and the commensurate sense of loss when a family does not form or does not survive — in policy and in communications to families across all ethnic groups and all income ranges.

Differences across ethnic groups did not exceed chance levels.

Adolescent disclosure to and secrecy from parents were uniquely associated with diabetes management and depressive symptoms independent of parental knowledge across ethnic groups; maternal reports of knowledge about her adolescent's diabetes care activities were associated with diabetes management independent of adolescent disclosure and secrecy.

However, the contextual factors influencing parenting practices and deviant peer affiliation appear to vary somewhat across ethnic groups.

One previous study integrated data from two parenting intervention trials (Reid et al. 2001) and found no meaningful differences in intervention benefits across ethnic groups in the USA.

The increase was spread across ethnic groups.

Gorman also noted that although there «tends to be an uptick in unhealthy behaviors like smoking after migration, patterns differ across ethnic groups and between men and women.

Scores stay low during early adolescence and increase linearly from 14 years of age to reach adult levels at 18 years of age; this pattern is consistent across ethnic groups, reflecting the reliability and generalization of the measure (Steinberg and Monahan, 2007).

According to the National Hospital Discharge Survey and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey databases, the proportion held true across ethnic groups.

Other predictors varied across ethnic groups.

A plague afflicting an entire country, across ethnic groups, is by definition more devastating than a plague afflicting only part of it.

Both armpit and ear wax secretions are smellier in Caucasians than in Asians, thanks to a tiny genetic change that differs across ethnic groups.

Across all ethnic groups, an estimated 550,000 Americans are diagnosed each year.

We next examined whether relationship quality variables were associated with outcomes independent of SES, and whether these associations differed across ethnic groups.