Sentences with phrase «from population studies»

In addition, there is evidence from population studies for trait - by - trait moderation, such that negative affectivity is most strongly predicting externalizing problem behavior when effortful control is low [24, 26].

The researchers examined data from population studies of diets, and also looked at markers of fatty acid levels in the blood, which are considered a more accurate measure of eating patterns than self - reported diet information.

I would be wary of generalizing from population studies, which often implies comparing rather different ethnic groups.

Not exact matches

«We also included population, income and poverty data from the U.S. Census Bureau, unemployment rates from various sources, median home listing prices from Zillow, and median monthly rent costs from Trulia,» the study says.

A new study from Wealth - X and UBS finds that the global population of billionaires has surged past 2,000.

«Whole segments of the population would reap enormous benefits, from social inclusion to educational and economic opportunities,» said DePauw University media studies professor Kevin Howley.

A striking 46 percent of renters ages 25 to 34 — the core of the millennial population — spend more than 30 percent of their incomes on rent, up from 40 percent a decade earlier, according to a report by Harvard University's Joint Center of Housing Studies.

Studies have estimated 3 % of the U.S. population suffer from the pain and numbness of carpal tunnel syndrome (although the jury is still out as to whether its causes are genetic, occupational or a combination of the two).

Separate studies of millionaire populations from Spectrem Group and Capgemini also show that the population of millionaires hit an all - time record in 2012.

In the chart above, courtesy of a March report from theOxford Institute for Energy Studies, you can see that the number of vehicles driving on Indian roads doubled between 2007 and 2014, thanks not only to an exploding population but also the rise of India's «spending class,» as Gianni calls it.

«Based on [current population survey] data from 1980 - 2015, we find that increasing the minimum wage decreases significantly the share of automatable employment held by low - skilled workers,» the study says.

(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).

If you use a nominal 30 % rate and figure the U.S. population at 300 million you get 90 million victims, which statistically corroborates with the number from other studies citing direct reports.

«A 2012 study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life reports that just 6 % of the US population are atheists even though the number of religiously unaffiliated has grown from 15 % to just under 20 %.»

With all due respect, if you'd read the actual study, you would see that this was not a whole genome sequence comparison; rather it was a comparison of mitochondrial 12S rDNA and 16S rDNA sequences for the purposes of confirming the species relationship between the Pod Mrcaru lizards (P. sicula), the source population from Pod Kopiste (also P. sicula), and the original indigenous population on Pod Mrcaru (P. mellisellensis).

Spiritual but not religious people are especially prevalent in the younger population in the United States, although a recent study has argued that it is not so much that people have stopped believing in God, but rather have drifted from formal institutions.

New research from Harvard University actually suggests that attending «religious services» at least once a week will significantly lower your risk of dying over the next decade and a half — and these results have been replicated in enough studies and populations to be considered highly reliable.

They often take scientific literature out of context or extrapolate information from studies that focus on other populations.

I'd love to know where you plucked your figures from, because most scientific studies seem to suggest that the majority (between 60 % and 80 % depending on the study) of the population are actually bise.xual in that they are attracted to members of both se.xes (although a large majority of these people never cross into acting on any same - s.

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

Do a bit of study regarding genetic drift, population bottlenecks and the impossibility of the entire human race having come from 3 breeding pairs of humans, with all the males being 1st order relatives, a mere 4,000 years ago.

Johnson and Tamney studied 262 voters from «Middletown,» a population representative of the voting patterns of the whole country.

A study done in 2000 by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition indicates that up to 39 % of the population are possibly suffering from Vitamin B12 deficiency.

Using data from clinical food challenge studies, the VSEP has identified reference doses for the common food allergens at which 95 - 99 % of the allergic population are unlikely react (1,2).

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 predicted that sugar sweetened drink consumption contributes a relatively small amount to UK population morbidity (28000 disability adjusted life years) compared with low fruit and vegetable consumption (1130000 disability adjusted life years).59 Using revenue from a sugar sweetened drink tax to reduce the prices of fruit and vegetables is a potential mechanism for further improving population health.60

Abstinence from Kona, tobacco, and alcohol by many Adventists has afforded a near - unique opportunity for studies to be conducted within that population group on the health effects of Kona drinking, free from confounding factors.

Energy from macronutrient and food group intakes at 21 mo of age: the Gemini twin cohort (whole study population and consumers) 1

So the bell curve was shifted away from the mean for that population so they re-did the growth charts by doing population studies in the United States including everybody and reissued those growth charts and those became CDC growth charts.

The study population was drawn from all births in British Columbia from 2000 - 2004.

Data from this study were from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, a cross-sectional health interview survey representative of the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized populastudy were from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, a cross-sectional health interview survey representative of the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized populaStudy, a cross-sectional health interview survey representative of the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized population.

We know from the Birthplace study that the low risk populations were not at all equivalently low risk.

Much of the evidence against BPA comes from large population studies rather than controlled clinical trials.

In a study of former NFL players, Guskiewicz found that suffering multiple concussions can make athletes more vulnerable to depression later in life and, last year, data revealed that retired NFL players suffered from higher rates of dementia and Alzheimer's than the general population.

Although the kids in the Australian study were selected from the general population (as opposed to a psychiatric practice or sleep clinic), researchers discovered that about 10 % of children complaining of nighttime fears fit the criteria for an anxiety disorder.

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).

But this doesn't make sense for everything we do in health care, and we know the information we get from randomized controlled trials doesn't always translate well to real life because 1) the restrictions we put on eligibility for studies rarely allows the results to be generalized to the population as a whole and 2) Adherence to the intervention tends to be higher in a randomized controlled trial than in real life which makes the effect seem «better» than it is.

These studies show little difference between epidural and nonepidural (usually opiate - exposed) babies in terms of Apgar score and umbilical - cord pH, both of which reflect the baby's condition at birth.78 However, a large - population survey from Sweden found that use of an epidural was significantly associated with a low Apgar score at birth.79

Limitations: Conclusions from the study are limited in their application to the population of expectant fathers by the low response rate and the low numbers of low - income, ethnic - background, and indigenous fathers in the sample.

METHODS: This study was embedded in the Generation R Study, a population - based prospective cohort study from fetal life onward in the Netherlstudy was embedded in the Generation R Study, a population - based prospective cohort study from fetal life onward in the NetherlStudy, a population - based prospective cohort study from fetal life onward in the Netherlstudy from fetal life onward in the Netherlands.

* A study of parents of 86 children in clinics of pediatrics and child psychiatry (ages 2 - 13 years) on military bases (offspring of military personnel) revealed that cosleeping children received higher evaluations of their comportment from their teachers than did solitary sleeping children, and they were underrepresented in psychiatric populations compared with children who did not cosleep.

We performed a population - based, retrospective cohort study of all births that occurred in Oregon during 2012 and 2013 using data from newly revised Oregon birth certificates that allowed for the disaggregation of hospital births into the categories of planned in - hospital births and planned out - of - hospital births that took place in the hospital after a woman's intrapartum transfer to the hospital.

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

Inclusion criteria were as follows: the study population was women who chose planned home birth at the onset of labor; the studies were from Western countries; the birth attendant was an authorized mid-wife or medical doctor; the studies were published in 1985 or later, with data not older than from 1980; and data on transfer from home to hospital were described.

This cross-sectional study was to assess the relationship between RA, breastfeeding, and also use of oral contraceptives, in a population of older women from South China, where cultural habits differ from those in the West, where most previous studies were conducted.

A large population - based study from Canada found that the risk of severe maternal morbidities ---- defined as hemorrhage that requires hysterectomy or transfusion, uterine rupture, anesthetic complications, shock, cardiac arrest, acute renal failure, assisted ventilation, venous thromboembolism, major infection, or in - hospital wound disruption or hematoma ---- was increased threefold for cesarean delivery as compared with vaginal delivery (2.7 % versus 0.9 %, respectively)(7).

Baseline differences were noted between groups in two studies (Graffy 2004; Hoddinott 2012), in one study, the intervention was not delivered to all participants in the intervention group (Reeder 2014), and in one study, the study group differed significantly from the background population (Winterburn 2003).

«For this large cohort of women who planned midwife - led home births in the United States, outcomes are congruent with the best available data from population - based, observational studies that evaluated outcomes by intended place of birth and perinatal risk factors.

In a study of 1001 home births in the Toronto area before the regulation of midwifery, the transport rate during labour and post partum was 16.5 %.8 In other national, population - based studies of planned home births, rates of intrapartum transport ranged from 14.5 % in Australia9 to 20.3 % in the Netherlands.3

To examine whether improved room ventilation by use of a fan or an open window affects the risk of SIDS, we analyzed data from a population - based case - control study of risk factors for SIDS that included detailed information on sleep environment.

Quiz Ref IDOur conclusions are limited by our study population, which was selected from a single cohort from the United States and sampled at a single time point; thus, our findings may not be entirely generalizable to populations elsewhere or to different points in infant development.