Sentences with phrase «among population studies»

Not exact matches

Perhaps most concerning is the study's findings that the smoking rate hasn't changed in poor populations; among the rich, it's fallen more than five percentage points.

One British study showed that the incidence of psychopathy among CEOs is four times that of the general population, so it's not as unlikely as you might think.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Among the cities we featured in the study, Memphis had the lowest total population and the second lowest population density.

(Washington, D.C.: Committee on Education and the Workforce, February, 13, 2002), http://archives.republicans.edlabor.house.gov/archive/hearings/107th/eer/enronthree21302/kruse.htm Another study comparing a matched sample of ESOP versus non-ESOP firms in with similar industries and workforce sizes among closely held companies, again, using population data on all available US DOL data followed the ESOP firms before and after their adoption of the ESOP from 1988 to 1998 along with the matched firms and found that 20 % of the ESOP firms had a defined benefit plan before adopting their ESOP, and 10 years later, after adopting their ESOP, they had defined benefit plans five times more than non-ESOP firms), 33.3 % of ESOP firms had a 401 (k) plan before adopting their ESOP with 52.4 % 10 years later (five times more than non-ESOP firms), and 35.7 % of ESOP firms had a deferred profit - sharing plan before adopting their ESOP with 51.2 % 10 years later (five times more than non-ESOP firms).

Statistical studies of the frequency of sexual abuse of minors in the general population as well as statistics about abuse among other groups such as public school teachers lend support to MacRae's point.

According to a recent pew study, among PRACTICING Christians, the divorce rate is FAR less than the secular population.

Pew has released the findings of their 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, which shows that among the overall population, the number of people who do not believe in God has increased 3 percentage points.

«This study's actual results do not show that drinking diet beverages causes cardiovascular events among any population.

But without multiple mutually corroborating & very rigorous population studies to determine strong associations among different variables, one can't speak confidently on what causes what — and this in a discipline, psychology, already fraught with poorly designed and low - statistical - rigor studies.

Many studies have evaluated neuromuscular electrical stimulation in the ACL - reconstructed population, the reviewers noted, but lack of standardization and homogeneity among the studies hampered comparisons.

However, this population - based, case - control study was limited by a low participation rate of 50 % among eligible cases and 41 % among eligible controls and a small sample size of 185 SIDS cases.

In a new study, Boston Children's Hospital found that 8.4 % of the young people presenting to the hospital's Gender Clinic had been adopted, or nearly four times the rate among the general population.

In many previous U.S. studies, it was not possible to disaggregate planned in - hospital births from planned out - of - hospital births that took place in the hospital after a woman's intrapartum transfer to the hospital.3, 9,10 The latter births represent 16.5 % of planned out - of - hospital births in our population, and misclassification of these births as in - hospital births caused rates of adverse outcomes among planned out - of - hospital births to be underestimated (in some cases, substantially).

However, more recent studies suggest an elevated risk still exists among nonsmokers in Western populations (Carpenter et al 2013).

Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number of studies that show a possible protective effect of human milk feeding against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37 Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement of cognitive development.38, 39

The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

These differences may explain the lower rate of SIDS in this population and this study identifies these issues as clear targets for SIDS risk reduction among White British families.

Unsafe sleep practices and an analysis of bedsharing among infants dy - 42 ABM PROTOCOLS ing suddenly and unexpectedly: Results of a four year, population - based, death - scene investigation study of sudden infant death syndrome and related deaths.

The differences among study findings are partly explained by differences in study designs, assessment tools, study populations (13), usual maternity care practices and caregiver attitudes (14 - 16).

To determine whether the presence and strength of the associations between individual risk factors and severe PPH vary among women undergoing prelabor CD or intrapartum CD, stratified analyses are needed according to CD subtype.To identify risk factors for severe PPH within 2 distinct CD populations, prelabor CD and intrapartum CD, we performed 2 case - control studies.

A study published by the group today says that Britain is among the best performing countries when it comes to the number of road deaths per head of the population.

The study found joining the euro seemed to boost European identity among the population of member states, particularly among young, urban people.

AAAS is partnering with HelpAge USA to conduct a study assessing the prevalence of sexual and gender - based violence (GBV) among persons older than 49 years of age in populations of protracted displacement.

Study of Sexual and Gender - Based Violence among Older Populations in Situations of Conflict - Induced Displacement

He is also studying CIB2 among the general population.

AAAS is partnering with HelpAge USA to conduct a study assessing the prevalence of sexual and gender - based violence among older populations.

The population - based retrospective cohort study used insurance records from Ontario to analyze the rate of diabetes cases among nearly 643,000 women who delivered their first child between April 2000 and March 2010.

The study, published online in the peer - reviewed Journal of General Internal Medicine, also found no difference in completion of the form by race or ethnicity, suggesting wide acceptance of these orders among California's highly diverse population.

The study, «Spectrophotometric analysis at the single - cell level: elucidating dispersity within melanic immortalized cell populations,» was supported in part by the Mizzou Advantage program, an initiative that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, staff, students and external partners to solve real - world problems in four areas of strength identified at the University of Missouri, including Food for the Future, One Health / One Medicine, Sustainable Energy and Media of the Future.

Dr Allan Debelle, who conducted the study as part of his PhD under the supervision of Dr Rhonda Snook at the University of Sheffield, said these results suggest that mate choice can be an important driver of the evolution of motor performance, «Our research shows that when, at each generation, females are given a choice among several mates performing energetically costly courtship, the motor performance of males in that population can respond to this selection process and progressively improve.»

Society's increasingly pervasive use of digital technology may be causing ADHD - like symptoms even among the general population, according to a new study of college students presented this week in San Jose, California at the Human - Computer Interaction conference of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Recent studies in Japan have virtually all found that the abandonment of small, traditionally managed rice paddies results in less biodiversity among the seminatural grasses and weeds that grow on paddy margins and in the insect populations that depend on that vegetation.

But she said the NHANES database is a broader data source than sources for studies that have found declines in obesity rates among smaller or segmented populations.

However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.

Most of those deaths are concentrated among the world's poorest populations, according to a study published online October 19 in the Lancet that documents the health and economic toll of pollution in 2015.

Although the new JNCI study did not analyze individual cell phone usage — preferring instead to take a broader look at the population at large — other research has examined subgroups of cell phone users to try to discern different trends among more frequent use.

«The evidence for recent genetic connection among the three populations, across this vast distance, is solid and convincing,» says Craig Moritz, a University of California, Berkeley, biologist not affiliated with the study.

«Although many guidelines recommend people with diabetes reduce their salt intake to lower the risk of complications, this study is among the first large longitudinal studies to demonstrate the benefits of a low - sodium diet in this population.»

One study mentioned in the WSU review demonstrates how drought, hunting and habitat competition among growing populations in Egypt led to the extinction of many large - bodied mammals around 3,000 B.C..

They maintain that cognitive tests done over time actually indicate small or no differences in performance among these populations and that studies on risk factors have produced useful, yet insufficient, explanations of the disparities - largely due to the lack of African American participation in research studies.

So a team of researchers from the Karolinska Institutet and UCL carried out a study to determine the risk of schizophrenia and other non-affective psychotic disorders among refugees, compared to non-refugee migrants, and the general Swedish population.

They found that among people in treatment for drug and alcohol use, the overall rate of smoking was 84 percent, compared with a rate of 31 percent for members of the general population, matched for gender and year of study.

«Perhaps the most striking finding from the study is that rates of psychosis were not elevated consistently among nonrefugee first - generation migrants relative to the general population,» writes Dr. Kirkbride.

The study, «Prescription opioid use among adults with mental health disorders in the United States,» is among the first to show the extent to which the population of Americans with mental illness use opioids.

A new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center reviews research that suggests that the risk for developing Alzheimer's disease among older African Americans may be two to three times greater than in the non-Hispanic white population and that they differ from the non-Hispanic white population in risk factors and disease manifestation.

«Further studies may answer the important question of why there are racial disparities in consults with cancer specialists and treatment among this population.

A study of 222,000 technology, science, and medicine graduates showed that between 1990 and 2000 they started 49,000 new companies — a proportion no higher than among the adult population at large.

The investigators also found that sickle cell trait was slightly more common among dialysis patients, present in 10 % of study participants compared with 6.5 % to 8.7 % in the general African - American population.

The cohort used in the study was compiled with data that would reflect a true - to - life 10,000 person population among urban, non-monogomous men who have sex with men, who were defined by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) as «high - risk.»