Sentences with phrase «for age cohorts»

While the findings indicated a variable pattern of maternal stress across child development, participants included mothers of children with developmental disorders where data was not available for all age cohorts (i.e. behaviour problems in children aged 2 to 5 years).

However, and consistent with Ravi's earlier comments on modeling refinements, we modestly increased these exposures for the youngest participants, while slightly reducing allocations for age cohorts closer to retirement.

The Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey (where I work) is now accepting applications for six summer seminars, on topics ranging across ethics, politics, law, medicine, philosophy, and religion, for every age cohort from high school to post-baccalaureate students.

For each age cohort there was also a control group, which did not take the substance.

As job growth began to materialize for this age cohort in 2010, their pent - up demand for apartments returned to the market in 2010 and 2011.

Not exact matches

But the programs are «not going to be for everyone,» she said, such as older workers nearing retirement age, a growing cohort in this country.

As the cohort ages, differences are accounted for more fully by differences in income from the 3rd pillar, especially after age 70.

«These findings raise serious questions about the policy needs for future pensionless cohorts, such as the adequacy of benefits from Old Age Security, the Guaranteed Income Supplement, and the Quebec and Canada pension plans,» the report states.

OTTAWA — The value of retirement assets of those aged 55 to 64 without an employer pension - representing about half in this age cohort in Canada - is wholly inadequate, with a median value of only $ 250 for those earning between $ 25,000 and $ 50,000 and $ 21,000 for those with incomes in the $ 50,000 and $ 100,000 range, a new study has found.

Maturing big - name Canadian startups like Shopify, Wattpad, and Hootsuite helped pave the way, Wealthsimple's Mike Katchen told Reuters, for the next «cohort of companies that are coming of age on the international stage.»

Age cohorts and fertility rates may not be terribly edifying topics, but as Roof and McKinney show, they are crucial for understanding the plight of the mainline, Liberal and moderate Protestants suffer from an aging population.

Especially for a certain age cohort.

A prospective study8 of a Tasmanian high - risk birth cohort of 6213 infants reported no increase in cyanosis, pallor, or breathing symptoms at age 5 weeks for infants sleeping in the supine position, and, in fact, the risk for these symptoms was increased among infants sleeping in the prone position.

We modeled the cumulative life experience for this cohort through age 70 years.

Respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections are the leading cause of morbidity in children.1, 2 Prospective cohort studies in industrialized countries revealed a prevalence of 3.4 % to 32.1 % for respiratory tract infectious diseases and 1.2 % to 26.3 % for gastrointestinal infectious diseases in infancy.3, — , 8 The risks of these infectious diseases are affected by several factors including birth weight, gestational age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, number of siblings, day care attendance, and parental smoking.3, 5,6,8, — , 20

We calculated these transition probabilities using data from the longitudinal National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and older.

Based on prior research (Table 1), we simulated the health and health care costs for a cohort of 100,000 women who were aged 15 years in 2002.

Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

When logistic models were stratified by the presence or absence of hypertensive disease, only maternal age older than 34 years (odds ratio [OR], 1.4; 95 % confidence interval [CI], 1.0 - 2.0), pregnancy - associated plasma protein - A of the 95th percentile or less (OR, 1.9; 95 % CI, 1.2 - 3.1), and alpha fetoprotein of the 95th percentile or greater (OR, 2.3; 95 % CI, 1.4 - 3.8) remained statistically significantly associated for abruption.In this large, population - based cohort study, abnormal maternal aneuploidy serum analyte levels were associated with placental abruption, regardless of the presence of hypertensive disease.

A prospective cohort study found the SIDS rate to be significantly increased for infants exposed in utero to methadone (OR: 3.6 [95 % CI: 2.5 — 5.1]-RRB-, heroin (OR: 2.3 [95 % CI: 1.3 — 4.0]-RRB-, methadone and heroin (OR: 3.2 [95 % CI: 1.2 — 8.6]-RRB-, and cocaine (OR: 1.6 [95 % CI: 1.2 — 2.2]-RRB-, even after controlling for race / ethnicity, maternal age, parity, birth weight, year of birth, and maternal smoking.229 In addition, a meta - analysis of studies that investigated an association between in utero cocaine exposure and SIDS found an increased risk of SIDS to be associated with prenatal exposure to cocaine and illicit drugs in general.230

Our data agrees with that of others, 1223 that suggest that delaying the introduction of formula milk protects against the morbidity associated with respiratory infection, illness, and associated hospitalisations in the first year of life.24 Prolonged breast feeding was only marginally associated with less respiratory illness when examined in a New Zealand birth cohort to 2 years of age, 25 and the Dundee study8 showed a small, yet significant protective effect of breast feeding against respiratory illness at 0 — 13 weeks and 40 — 52 weeks after adjustment for social class, maternal age, and parental smoking.

It's also the kind of bold policy stroke that would command national attention, with Cuomo potentially starring as the governor who triggered the removal of a whole cohort of aging highways that blighted central cities for 60 years.

The researchers undertook a nationally representative prospective cohort study of 1,112 school - based adolescents aged 13 - 16 years, and assessed them at baseline, three - months and 12 - months for childhood trauma (defined as physical assault and bullying) and psychotic experiences.

Malaspina's team was the first to show in a 2001 paper that the most important source of these rare, sporadic changes was the paternal germline (father's sperm), with advanced paternal age explaining over a quarter of the population risk for schizophrenia in an Israeli cohort.

«Our new study indicates that a differential therapeutic approach can be beneficial for older patients in melanoma and suggests that age should be taken into account to design better treatments for certain cohorts of patients.»

«Cross-national surveys such as the WHO Study on Global Aging and Adult Health (SAGE), the Gallup World Poll, and other longitudinal cohorts studies of aging in Brazil, China, India, and South Korea, are beginning to redress the balance and provide the evidence for policy, but much more remains to be done.&rAging and Adult Health (SAGE), the Gallup World Poll, and other longitudinal cohorts studies of aging in Brazil, China, India, and South Korea, are beginning to redress the balance and provide the evidence for policy, but much more remains to be done.&raging in Brazil, China, India, and South Korea, are beginning to redress the balance and provide the evidence for policy, but much more remains to be done.»

The late 1980s featured stark warnings of an impending shortage of scientific talent based on a demographically driven formula for calculating the number of science and engineering Ph.D. s in a given cohort of college - age students.

In the current study, McKeown and her colleagues analyzed longitudinal data on 1,685 middle - aged adults over a period of 14 years, obtained from the Framingham Heart Study's Offspring cohort — a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - funded program that has monitored multiple generations for lifestyle and clinical characteristics that contribute to cardiovascular disease.

For the study, the researchers analyzed data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohort, a study of 15,792 residents in four communities in the United States, who were between the ages of 45 and 64 when the study began in 1987.

After recruiting more than 600 cohort members for their study, Ritchie and colleagues tracked their scores on a simple visual task three times over 10 years, repeating the test at the mean ages of 70, 73, and 76.

«While improvements may take time to manifest, and thus are more apparent at older ages, this could also signal problems for younger cohorts, particularly females, who — if their improvements are more minimal — may not see the same gains in life expectancy as experienced by the generations that came before them,» said Levine, who received both her PhD in Gerontology in 2015 and her BA in Psychology in 2008 from USC.

When the cohort reached an average age of 18, another 178 healthy boys without ADHD were recruited for comparison.

«By following this cohort of older women for so long, we show directly that lifetime risk of hip fracture in community - dwelling women over age 75 is extremely high,» wrote the authors of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research study report.

Given the young age of this study group, Liu and colleagues chose not to analyze the details participants reported about the types of fish consumed, though they plan to do so for work on an older cohort in the future.

Investigators looked at data from a large, nationally representative sample of preschool - aged children — the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Birth Cohort, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics.

These associations remained significant after controlling for age, birth - cohort, ambient UV of residence, hair color, skin color, and cumulative number of sunburns and sunbathing vacations.

Because old age and obesity are major risk factors for knee osteoarthritis, researchers asked whether an intensive program of weight loss combined with exercise could prevent the onset of knee pain among this cohort.

One study is based on children taking part in the Finnish Type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention (DIPP) study, which is a birth cohort study observing children at genetic risk for type 1 diabetes from birth up to clinical diabetes or 15 years of age.

The models included terms for time (age in years, divided by 10 so the coefficients yield effects of decline over 10 years), age cohorts (age at baseline in five year bands) to adjust for secular effects, and an interaction term between age cohort and time, separately in men and women.

This last interaction term allows the calculation of the estimate of 10 year decline in the five age cohorts, undertaken with the original scale for all tests.

As the age cohort × time × sex interactions (reasoning P = 0.59; memory P = 0.12; phonemic fluency P = 0.005; semantic fluency P = 0.02; and vocabulary P = 0.006) suggested sex differences in cognitive decline for some tests, we also stratified these analyses by sex.

The report was produced by the Pew Research Center in collaboration with researchers from the Age and Cohort Change Project (ACC) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), including Vegard Skirbekk, Marcin Stonawski and Michaela Potancokova.

The families were ascertained from multiple sites, including contributors to the Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC), and the neurology working group of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology consortium (CHARGE).

At 9 - 10 mo of age, such mice were then compared a to age - matched cohorts of untreated BubR1H / H; INK - ATTAC mice, and to BubR1H / H mice lacking the INK - ATTAC system for selective ablation of p16Ink4a - expressing cells.

One hundred children aged 1 to 6 years were sequentially assigned to 3 cohorts of 20, 40 and 40 participants with stratification for age by 2 - year increments (1 — 2 years, 3 — 4 years, and 5 — 6 years) to ensure that the study groups were balanced by age in case of age - related differences in tolerability or immunogenicity.

Risk factors for age at initial Pseudomonas acquisition in the cystic fibrosis epic observational cohort.

Participants were randomized to one of 3 cohorts in the order of enrollment, with stratification for age by 2 - year increments (1 — 2 years, 3 — 4 years, 5 — 6 years).

We therefore proceeded to test whether we could identify methylation differences in adipose tissue from unrelated subjects with T2D compared with nondiabetic subjects, matched for age and sex (case - control cohort 2; Table 1).

A cohort of 2,862 men aged 42 - 60 years were followed for an average of almost 9 years.

The characteristics of 28 NGT and 28 T2D unrelated subjects, pairwise matched for age and sex, and selected from a larger twin cohort (20,21) are shown in Table 1.