Sentences with phrase «affect girls than boys»

Thyroid conditions are also as up to ten times more likely to affect girls than boys.

Not exact matches

In fact, they are likely at greater risk of damage — at least that's what we've learned from the standard childhood vaccinations, which negatively affect two to three times more boys than girls.

Research also shows that girls are more affected by PTSD than boys.

The results of the research paper are consistent with those of a 2013 study which found that, while ACL injuries did not disproportionately affect female high school athletes overall, girls were found to have a significantly higher ACL injury rate than boys in sex - comparable sports (soccer, basketball, and baseball / softball), with girls 2 times more likely to suffer an ACL injury playing soccer than any other sport, and 4 times more likely to sustain such an injury playing either soccer or basketball than volleyball or softball.

You may have concerns because you've heard that boys are more likely than girls to be affected by autism, or that certain baby vaccines are linked to the condition.

SIDS affects boys more often than girls.

In the new study, the scientists expressed surprise that the early abnormal growth of brain cells they observed in the fish embryo specifically affected male hormones, potentially indicating why more boys than girls are diagnosed with certain neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

Also, girls tend to get affected more than boys.

Although tongue - tie can affect anyone, it's more common in boys than girls.

Just like in oppositional defiant disorder, boys are more affected than girls.

Often called color vision deficiency, this condition affects far more boys than girls.

This is more common in girls than in boys and often affects both legs.

The new finding is consistent with what is known about how other chemicals affect boys more than girls, said David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany.

It also sheds new light on the long observed but little understood «gender bias» of autism, an illness that typically manifests by age 3 and affects about four times more boys than girls.

It affects about 1 in every 5,000 people and is four times more common in boys than girls.

The fact that migraine headaches affect slightly more girls than boys before puberty, and 2 - 3x more women than men is evidence that hormones also play a role in this condition.

It is now estimated that one in sixty - eight children will be diagnosed with autism, with boys affected at a much higher rate than girls.

In contrast to migraine prevalence in adults, in childhood, boys are afflicted more than girls are, but during puberty and adolescence the incidence shifts, and girls are affected more (1).

In the book, The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life, Gurian and co-author Kathy Stevens examine why boys are having more problems in school than girls, and offer classroom strategies and activities for motivating boys, without affecting the education of giBoys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life, Gurian and co-author Kathy Stevens examine why boys are having more problems in school than girls, and offer classroom strategies and activities for motivating boys, without affecting the education of giboys are having more problems in school than girls, and offer classroom strategies and activities for motivating boys, without affecting the education of giboys, without affecting the education of girls.

In addition to this, government stats show that boys and poor children are the worst affected and boys are almost twice as likely than girls to fall behind in a language.

Finally, we examined whether troubled boys affect their peers differently than do troubled girls.

Recent research suggests that boys are indeed more affected than girls by the lack of a male role model in the family.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics as a «condition of the brain that makes it difficult for children to control their behavior,» affects an estimated 4 to 12 percent of all school - age children — about three times more boys than girls.

Carrell and Hoekstra also examined whether troubled boys affect their peers differently than do troubled girls.

Colour vision deficiency (CVD) on average affects more than one child in every UK classroom — one in 12 boys and one in 200 girls — but exam boards continue to use colours to explain details required to answer questions in subjects such as geography.

For example, administrators may think of discipline disparities as an issue that mainly affects boys, not realizing until they examine the data that African American girls are often disciplined more often than white or Asian boys and far more often than girls of any other racial background.

In terms of grade level, bullying was more common for 7th graders than for 8th graders at the three schools we surveyed, with two notable exceptions: Verbal bullying affected 8th grade girls more than any other subgroup at Small City School, and physical violence affected 8th grade boys and girls more than 7th graders at Big City School.

On the contrary, in relation to sex differences, results showed that boys reached higher mean scores than girls only in positive affect (t (146) = 2.25, p = 0.026)(Table 2).

For a young girl and a young boy with externalizing problems, the resulting peer rejection is likely to affect the girl more strongly, because she values social relationships more highly than the boy does.

Fact:» [The] absence of a parent figure is not the most influential feature of separation on children's development; the age at which children experience separation is not, in itself, important; [and] there is no consistent evidence that boys are more affected by divorce than girls.»

Hyperactivity was the only behaviour affected by the child's gender with boys more likely to have difficulties in this domain than girls; 22 % of boys returned a score in the borderline or abnormal range compared with 15 % of girls.

A relationship with parents with lower quality of emotional bonds seems to affect more boys than girls in terms of problematic Facebook use, maybe because girls also tend to be a source of support for others, more than boys (Ma and Huebner 2008), being more connected to their peers (Claes 1992), and more protected of problematic use by this reason.

It affects more boys than girls (approximately 4 boys for every 1 girl).

It affects approximately three in 100 children and is more common in boys than girls.

Nevertheless, girls are still more negatively affected by societal norms than boys.

Suveg et al. (2008) showed that mothers and fathers of boys with an AD, not girls, exhibited less positive affect and more negative affect during emotion discussions than did fathers and mothers of boys without an AD.

In addition, boys were more affected than girls.