Sentences with phrase «earlier age at death»

An increased amount of miRNA in brain cells was correlated with a younger age at disease onset and an earlier age at death of the patients.

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The typical homeless man left his parental home at an early age, often following the death of a paront or serious conflict in the home.

Every few years, beginning in 1967 with Death at an Early Age, Kozol has brought forth another book exposing what he regards as some grave injustice of American society.

To some extent, this attitude of denial has come about because of changes in our society in this century: the marked decrease in the number of deaths at an early age; the development of specialized professions for the care of the dying and the dead; the emergence of geographical mobility, with the consequence that most of us live at some distance from aging and dying relatives, including parents; the growth of separate communities for the aging, not only nursing homes but retirement communities.

My grandmother died at age 47 after giving birth to 14 children... and I'll bet that there are more statistics leaning that way (early death) than the way of your relatives» longevity.

He had an impressive collection of Raider memorabilia, however, which ingrained Raider football into Dr. Death at an early age, even if subliminally.

If an athlete is allowed to continue playing after concussion, however, their recovery is likely to take longer, and they may be at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and, in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

For example, stopping breastfeeding at an early age is a factor associated with increased risk of diarrhoea, xerophthalmia and death (4)(5).

At age 5, she and I had many difficult and tearful conversations about our dog's death two years earlier.

Finally I have just heard of Nigel Doughty's death at the early age of 54.

Those stage theories reflected a time when most people marched through life predictably: marrying at an early age; then having children when young; then work, work, work; then maybe a midlife crisis; then retirement; then death.

Inflammation also erodes telomeres, the «caps» at the ends of chromosomes that protect genes from degradation, which can lead to early cell death, premature aging and even cancer.

They add: «What is similar between now and then is the human genetic material, our genome, including ancient polymorphisms that were uncovered to predispose the carrier to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease... however, our ancient ancestors were certainly susceptible to many other conditions, such as infectious diseases, nutritional deprivation, and trauma, which often resulted in death at an early age, before atherosclerotic heart disease had a clinical impact.»

The WHO study, one of a collection of articles in a special issue of the journal devoted to women's health beyond reproduction, found that the leading causes of death of women aged 50 years and older worldwide are cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke) and cancers, but that in developing countries these deaths occur at earlier ages than in the rich world.

They found that the maximum reported age of death — the age of the oldest person to die in a given year — in France, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom (the countries with the largest numbers of supercentenarians) increased rapidly between the 1970s and early 1990s but plateaued in the mid-1990s at 114.9 years.

After physicist Stephen Hawking's death at the age of 76 was announced early this morning (March 14), scientists, thinkers and many more took to Twitter to share their thoughts.

In animal studies, we see the opposite: protein restriction extends maximum lifespan, which means that at high ages, mortality is lower, but increases risk of early death, which means that in middle age mortality is higher.

The impulse to write hit Leon early in life — according to Current Biography, Leon Uris authored an operetta in 1930, at age six, inspired by the death of his pet dog.

He tackled two of his last assignments in the 2006 omnibus picture Paris, je t «aime and the 2008 comedy - drama Looking for Palladin, prior to his death at age 86 in early February 2012.

The other factor leading to Darwin's creative block was the death, seven years earlier, of his daughter Annie at age 10; in scenes where Darwin is visited by the goading spirit of Annie (newcomer Martha West) and finally in the film's keening climax in the town where she died, «Creation» seems as neurotically focused on her passing as Darwin was.

The result is a cracking of her psyche that one can only wonder could have been prevented with some sort of intervention, but we're never quite shown whether she has any friends or family that can keep her grounded (the only allusion to any is the untimely death of her father at an early age, presumably giving a hint as to her fear of abandonment).

In The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory and the Digital Dark Age, Paolo Cherchi Usai noted that the Zapruder tape sold in August 1999 for $ 16 million, at that time making it «the largest amount ever paid for a motion picture artefact» 2 Eight years earlier, Oliver Stone made this material the centrepiece of his Oscar - winning blockbuster JFK.

At a reading of his first book, wherein he's depicted the death of his mother to cancer at an early age and the chain - reaction this had on his relationship with his father and his relationship with drugs, Elliott's father Neil (Ed Harris) makes an appearancAt a reading of his first book, wherein he's depicted the death of his mother to cancer at an early age and the chain - reaction this had on his relationship with his father and his relationship with drugs, Elliott's father Neil (Ed Harris) makes an appearancat an early age and the chain - reaction this had on his relationship with his father and his relationship with drugs, Elliott's father Neil (Ed Harris) makes an appearance.

Kaufman starred on «Saturday Night Live» and Taxi in the late 70s and early 80s, prior to his untimely death from lung cancer at age 35.

Yet for all its accolades, the movie is also dogged by a sense of the tragic, as all three stars met gruesome deaths at an early age (Dean at 24, Mineo at 37 and Wood at 43).

Van Gogh Rated R for sexuality and nudity Rotten Tomatoes Score: 63 % Available on DVD and Blu - ray French with English Subtitles This early 90's biopic about the famed impressionist by iconic French director Maurice Pialat follows the artist in his last 60 days before his tragic death at the age of 37.

And I would be remiss if I did not mention a wonderful cameo by Garry Shandling — the last performance before his death last month at age 66 — as a porcupine, Ikki, who appeared in the Kipling stories but not in Disney's earlier film.

From his agonizing bout with spina bifida to his unfaithful marriage to his spiraling addiction to drugs and alcohol, Abraham covers the singer's darkest days, which culminated with his death at the early age of 29 in 1953.

The Kozol text that struck me the most was Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools that had been published in 1967 and was a narrative about Kozols first year teaching in that same very section of Boston - Roxbury.

If we were talking about the 1960s, I could easily offer Jonathan Kozol's Death at an Early Age as the articulation of that era's strategy of increasing resources devoted to education, particularly for minority students.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972 Death at an Early Age.

In his first book, Death at an Early Age, he described the horrific experience of teaching at, and being fired from, a segregated public school in Boston.

Kozol's uniquely passionate take on urban schools and urban schoolchildren has been documented in such books as Death at an Early Age and, more recently, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope.

«There's no question that Elizabeth Natale has captured the mood among classroom teachers who are caught in the straitjacket of the Common Core and the entire regimen that evaluates teachers on the basis of their students» scores on virtually meaningless standardized exams,» said author Jonathan Kozol, who wrote the classic «Death at an Early Age» about his first year teaching in Boston.

Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools by Jonathan Kozol

He was still at work on this project at the time of his death in 1931 at the age of 84 - having registered his final patent just a few months earlier.

It results in sudden cardiac death at a young age, with dogs reported to have passed as early as 10 weeks of age and as late as 1 year of age.

Recognizing subtle signs early on can slow the rate of decline, but at the end of the day, ageing and death are natural processes and unlike humans, cats do not seem to fear the end.

Recognising subtle signs early on can slow the rate of decline, but at the end of the day, ageing and death are natural processes and unlike humans, cats do not seem to fear the end.

Maurice Brooks was born in 1922 in Connecticut, spent his early years in Los Angeles, and then at age 8, moved to New York City following his father's death.

For Polke, who approved the early conception of the show before his death in 2010 at the age of 69, the museum is making comparable space for an artist with less widespread recognition but a healthy reputation in the art world.

After he became too ill to work with oils, he continued working with watercolors which he produced until his early death in 1960, at the age of 49, of cancer.

The latest exhibition at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, «James Rosenquist: Painting as Immersion», has taken on added significance after the death of the artist earlier this year aged 83.

Dedicated with serious focus to art from the late 1930s until her death at age 95, Thomas was one of few women to be part of the early generation of Abstract Expressionists.

Pacita's artistic career, right up to her her early death at age 58, was a creative continuum exploring and expanding new mediums, techniques and materials.

While Rhoades» groundbreaking works found early recognition in Europe and New York, the artist spent the entirety of his career in Los Angeles, where he lived and worked until his untimely death in 2006 at the age of 41.

But in the early 1950s, in the years just before his tragic death at age 44 in an alcohol - fueled car crash, Pollock was experimenting with a new way of confronting his surface, spilling black enamel paint — the kind you might use on outdoor ironwork — onto raw cotton duck canvas, a clashing, angry union of synthetic industrial chemical and unprimed organic substrate.

From his days as a student at Black Mountain College during the early «50s until his death in 2011 at the age of 83, Twombly captured his daily life in photographs.

All were born within 14 years of each other — Szapocznikow the earliest, in 1926, and Wilke the latest, in 1940 — and all suffered untimely deaths during the apex of their artistic careers (Kudo at age 55, Szapocznikow at age 47, and Wilke at age 53 to cancer, while Thek succumbed to AIDS at age 55).