Sentences with phrase «general age of the population»

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The outgoing Auditor General expressed concerns about a number of significant and emerging pressures facing the Government, including an ageing infrastructure, and ageing population and insufficient progress in addressing Aboriginal pressures on reserves.

The data were weighted by age, gender, education, race, region, and income to be representative of the general population.

The percentage of gay people relative to the general population has remained constant for ages.

To be sure, «religious preference» is not the same as church membership or attendance, but it does depict a reality that is connected to church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette's finding that in 1961 the proportion of church members to the general population in the U.S. was the highest ever in the nation's history (Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, Vol.

From Pew: «As a rising cohort of highly unaffiliated millennials reaches adulthood, the median age of unaffiliated adults has dropped to 36, down from 38 in 2007 and far lower than the general (adult) population's median age of 46.»

... Based on current knowledge, there is no medical evidence to indicate that in the general population, women of reproductive age are at higher risk of miscarriage or preterm delivery if they continue to breastfeed while pregnant.

The highest rates of breastfeeding are observed among higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years of age living in the Mountain and Pacific regions of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74

The diet and nutrition survey of infants and young children (DNSIYC) 2011 is a one - off survey providing the only source of detailed information on the food consumption, nutrient intakes and nutritional status of infants and young children in the general UK population aged 4 to 18 months.

The average age of death of homeless people is just 47 - 30 years lower than the general population.

According to the British Legion, and when striking a national comparison, only 60 % of working age ex-service personnel are employed, which contrasts with 73 % of the general population.

While Cuomo's executive order doesn't necessarily raise the age of criminal responsibility, it does remove youths from the general population over the span of several months.

The report focused on emergency response team operations, mental health care, the handling of inmates under the age of 18, disciplinary measures involving removing inmates from the general population and suggested improvements.

Assessment of the 12 - Lead ECG as a screening test for detection of cardiovascular disease in healthy general populations of young people (12 — 25 years of age): a scientific statement from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.

This is the first study to find associations between deficits in attention and executive functioning with frequency of binge drinking and use of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, sedatives and tranquilizers, and stimulants in the general population ages 18 and older.

The abnormalities are found in about 3 percent of people older than 50 years of age and about 4 percent of all computed tomography scans performed in the general population.1

The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, directed by Malcolm Sears, MB, ChB, professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University, is believed to be «the first to determine the effects of timing of food introduction to cow's milk products, egg, and peanut, on food sensitization at age one in a general population - based cohort,» said lead investigator Maxwell Tran, a research student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Our results demonstrate that these prior findings were less likely to be directly related to RA and were likely a phenomenon of frailty and aging of the general population.»

The researchers selected 69 as the lower age limit because Medicare coverage of the general population begins at age 65, and the exposure of interest was regular mammography screening in the four years immediately preceding breast cancer diagnosis.

Dr John Beier, co-author of the research from the University of Miami, said: «The presence or absence of Prosopis juliflora in villages has a significant influence on the size of the mosquito population in general, on their species composition, on the sugar feeding status and, the age structure of female populations.

Survival after THA was longer than expected, compared to people of similar age and sex in the Swedish general population.

Analyses of over 4500 of urine samples from Britain's third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal - 3) showed that MG was prevalent in up to 1 % of the general population aged 16 - 44, who had reported at least one sexual partner.

This trend seems to be in line with an overall increase in the use of prescription drugs by Americans, and the older population in general — 90 percent of people ages 65 and older have prescription expenses.

In a long - term, large - scale population - based study of individuals aged 55 years or older in the general population researchers found that those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) had a four-fold increased risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer's disease (AD) compared to cognitively healthy individuals.

Specifically, female firefighters had a divorce rate of 32.1 percent, while 10.4 percent of women of the same age in the general population were divorced.

The general rise in short - sightedness, including in a sizeable proportion of the working age population, has implications for both the health care system and the economy, conclude the authors of the study.

However, the authors stress that «further clinical investigations will be essential to establish the optimal dose, duration and safety, and whether vitamin D2 or D3 have different effects on mortality risk, since the available trials are based on elderly populations in general (an age group with high competing risk of death often due to multiple co-existing disease conditions) and they do not typically include cause - specific deaths as the primary outcomes.»

Compared to an age and sex matched sample of the general population, the diabetes prevalence in JIA patients was significantly increased, with approximately double the prevalence ratio for diabetes in JIA patients compared to controls (1.92 for girls and 2.04 for boys).

In a study to be published in the July issue of the journal Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, Dr. Rourke noted that aging for people with HIV may be more challenging than for the general population because of HIV - related stigma, loss of friends and social networks, and the detrimental health effects of the virus and medications taken to combat the virus.

«We were very surprised to find that 35 percent of that population of patients had a genetic disease,» says Vilar - Sanchez, «although we hypothesized the proportion would be higher in this age group relative to the general population.»

It found that 19 percent of the 38.6 million Americans with mood disorders use prescription opioids, compared to 5 percent of the general population — a difference that remained even when the researchers controlled for factors such as physical health, level of pain, age, sex and race.

Follow - ups at age 26 revealed that the kids with hallucinations had developed full - on schizophrenia at more than 25 times the rate of the general population.

On the basis of the current studies as well as previous reports on the use of intradermal immunization against influenza, hepatitis B, rabies, and other infectious diseases, 2,3,8 it is becoming clear that use of the intradermal route may at least partially overcome the relatively poor influenza - specific immune responses seen in certain at - risk populations, particularly the elderly, in whom the immune response in general is known to diminish with age.9 Moreover, in times of shortage, the dose - sparing intradermal approach might be particularly well suited to the young, healthy persons included in the CDC's high - priority group for vaccination, such as health care workers, as well as to younger, otherwise healthy populations in general.

They found that polygenic risk for ADHD was positively associated with higher levels of traits of hyperactivity / impulsiveness and attention at ages 7 and 10 in the general population.

A cross-sectional analysis of NHANES: subjects were n = 1455 (2003/04) and n = 1493 (2005/06) adults aged 18 — 74 years, representative of the general adult population of the United States.

Various types of meditation have been shown to improve well - being among different populations such as physicians and the general public.14, 15, 16 Preliminary evidence suggests that meditation - based interventions may slow cellular aging rates by increasing telomerase activity, but many such studies lacked an active control group.17, 18 Recent randomized trials in breast cancer suggest that long - term intensive meditation interventions might have positive effects on telomerase activity.

According to this study, a woman with one of these mutations may have a 35 % chance of developing breast cancer by age 70, compared to the general population risk for breast cancer which is approximately 12 %.

More than 20 % of the general population have been shown to be positive for the variants in the deCODE MI ™ test, and these individuals have roughly double the likelihood of early onset heart attack — that is, prior to the age of 50 in men and 60 in women — compared to those without the risk variants.

We estimated the risk of death due to cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 - 69 year olds from data from the Office for National Statistics.19 We assumed that this death rate was approximately that of the non-smoking population, because around 12 % of this age group smoke.20 We multiplied this rate by the relative risk of death from cardiorespiratory causes in lifelong smokers to estimate the number of deaths that would be expected over five years from cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 year olds who smoke.

Demographic variables were year of graduation, sex (men vs women), age at graduation (≤ 29 years vs 30 - 32 or ≥ 33 years) and self - identified race / ethnicity, which students reported from a list of options on the GQ (categorized as white vs Asian / Pacific Islander; other or unknown race / ethnicity; or racial / ethnic groups considered underrepresented minorities in medicine relative to their numbers in the general population, including black, Hispanic, and American Indian / Alaska Native).

This was a case control study comparing the eating habits of cancer patients with those of people matched for age, race, etc. from the general population.

«People tend to gain weight steadily, on average — not everybody — and get more fat and tend to lose lean mass up to about age 65, and then what happens is that there's a downward trend: Now people start to kind of slowly lose weight — again, not everybody, but the trend is that as you get older — the general population I see is in the 70s and 80s — they tend to lose weight,» says Michi Yukawa, MD, MPH, acting instructor in the department of medicine and the division of gerontology and geriatric medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Awareness regarding BHRT has been expanding to the general population over the past few years; however, most individuals are not aware that hormone imbalance can lead to the majority of serious health conditions that can occur later in life, which are normally attributed to «aging.»

This study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, identified the most important symptoms linked to late - onset hypogonadism (low testosterone levels in aging men) in a large group of men representative of the general population.

lots of fruits and veggies) in the aging population, but also for the general population even if it doesn't directly affect blood alkalinity [29].

But, «the type of treatment effects reported in this study, even though the investigators referred to increases in levels of «hyperactivity,» were not the disruptive excessive hyperactivity behaviors of ADHD but more likely the type of overactivity exhibited occasionally by the general population of preschool and school age children.»

Serum concentrations of beta - carotene, vitamin C and E, zinc, and selenium are influenced by age, diet smoking status, alcohol consumption and corpulence in a general French adult population.

For several years, these researchers followed more than 500 FH patients between the ages of 20 and 74 and compared patient mortality during this period with that of the general population.

In addition, 10 percent of the general population in the United States, and 20 percent of women over age 60, have subclinical hypothyroidism, 2 a condition where you have no obvious symptoms and only slightly abnormal lab tests.

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in women with PCOS at middle age is 6.8 times higher than that of the general female population.

He has worked with athletes and general population clients of all ages and abilities on both exercise programs and soft tissue therapies.