Sentences with phrase «better than the general population»

As a group, astronauts are highly educated and have access to top medical care, meaning their healthcare outcomes are generally better than the general population.

Not exact matches

Given that a Democrat occupied the Oval Office between 2008 - 2016, and given that the economic condition of 90 % of all households declined during that period, it follows logically that empty promises of a Republican sounded better to the general population of voters than the empty promises of a Democrat.

Tea Party supporters appear to be better educated, wealthier, and more likely to call themselves conservative than the general population.

«I think the packaging industry has got a chance to reach out not just to the general population, but to councils and also to businesses and give them good information and give them good leads because there is a serious danger of people looking abroad for a solution rather than looking within and the solutions are within Scotland.

The study captured the opinions and behaviors of more than 5,000 moms and members of the general population as well as an ethnography study of 23 moms that included over 1,000 text logs, 200 video entries, and 32 hours of in - home interviews.

«For his sake, he better be doing significantly better with those voters than he is with the general population,» Tusk said, referring to the mayor's falling poll numbers.

«My thinking — as well as the general population's views — on the issue has evolved, and so I believe there's no better time than the present to get this done.

Evangelicals have lower science education and participation rates than the general population, suffer from a strain of anti-intellectualism within their ranks, are not always well served by a commitment to revelation over discovery, and possess undue trust in religious leaders — particularly in areas about which those leaders generally have little expertise, he said.

But vets who were white, older, better educated and never married were more likely to take their own lives than were people in the general population.

«The existing totality of evidence suggests an urgent need to increase the use of varenicline in the general population as well as in those with serious mental illness who on average die about 20 years earlier than the general population, in part, because their smoking rates may be as high as 75 percent,» said Hennekens.

In the cases, just this last couple of elections, where stem cell politics, for example, has been played out in the electoral process, stem cell research is [has] done better than the winning candidates for offices; and I think, apart from that, I think that we do have a serious problem in general education of the sciences and that accounts for the reluctance of a large segment of the population to accept the principles of evolution and think that there is still a debate about it, which there isn't — and that's a problem we need to solve, — but I still think there is an incredible constituency for science in this country.

We have previously shown that besides higher leisure time physical activity, the participants in Vasaloppet smoke less, have lower fat and higher fibre consumption and better physical and mental health than the general population.

Moreover, they reported better QoL in five areas of life than adolescents in the general population — moods and emotions, self - perception, autonomy, relationships with parents, and school life.

When the researchers factored in people's alcohol consumption, they found that those who also drank moderately — fewer than 14 drinks a week for men and seven for women — lived seven years longer than the general population, and that those years were mostly disability - free, as well.

He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.

Dr. Ben House: Uhm — that's not the best measure for athlete because they're gonna dispose of red blood cells faster than general population.

What is very well known is that those that suffer from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses are at higher risk than the general population for cardiometabolic diseases, such as high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, etc..

I would point out that most readers of these pages probably fall into the fitness / nutrition nerd category and as such have a better idea of what they're eating and expending than a more general population.

It's pretty impossible to feel good about yourself if you suffer from either anxiety or depression, yet unfortunately women with PCOS are more likely to suffer from both of these disorders than the general population.

Twitter and facebook: twitter is probably better than facebook, since facebook is too much general population.

Ready Player One is based on Ernest Cline's best - selling 2011 novel and tells the story of Wade Owen Watts (Tye Sheridan), a young man living in a dystopian future where the general population spends most of its time in the virtual reality landscape of OASIS rather than the real world.

It's an interesting parallel because the people who hold that belief are generally inclined to protect themselves and their family by any means necessary and believe themselves to be better informed than the general population at large.

Teachers as a group have better savings habits and are more likely to work with financial advisers than the general population, according to a recent study.

Being a responsible dog owner means thinking farther than just your own dog, but thinking about the dog population in general, and what is good for all dogs as well as your own.

According to a MetLife survey, Hispanics are much more likely than the general population to feel responsible for the financial well - being of their family.

Hispanics are much more likely than the general population to feel responsible for the financial well - being of their family.

Rather than penalizing for the accidents of the general population, discounts for good drivers will be available.

Between 31 % and 45 % of people with coronary heart disease suffer from clinically significant depressive symptoms, and 15 % — 20 % of them meet criteria of major depressive disorder which is roughly threefold higher than in the general population.13 It is now well established that depression is related to the incidence of CVD and is also an independent risk factor for cardiac morbidity and mortality.

These include emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and sense of personal accomplishment.10, 11 Burnout is higher in physicians than in the general population and peaks during training12 as well as mid - career.13

The existence of depression and other mood disorders among people with intellectual disability (ID) is well accepted and there are indications that their risk for developing depression may be greater than the general population.

Alex, who is also one of the Hunter Institute's LGBTI Champions, said: «The rates of mental illness, suicide attempts and self harm for LGBTI people are consistently higher than much of the general Australian population which shows that while much has been done in improving the mental health and welling being of the LGBTI people ongoing work in this area is vital.