Sentences with phrase «greater than that of the general population»

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However, we also found that the risk - tolerance of hybrid entrepreneurs was, on average, no greater than the level of risk tolerance found among people who remained employed — i.e., no greater than the general population,» Raffiee reports.

The organization's 2015 Military Lifestyle Survey found that female military spouses experience unemployment at nearly three times the rate of their civilian counterparts despite also demonstrating greater educational and professional experience than the general population.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

«In our study, infants with DP who were the product of a multiple - birth pregnancy were disproportionately higher than in the general population and greater than in previous studies,» Oh said.

Volunteer firefighters say they are at greater risk than the general population of contracting cancer due to toxins they encounter on calls, and they are pushing for additional medical coverage through state legislation.

For example, a man who is stopped and frisked could sue, claiming police unfairly target men if they make up a greater percentage of those stopped than they do the general population.

«Renal transplant recipients had greater risk of developing melanoma than the general population.

Consumption of contaminated fish «is an especially pressing concern for many communities of color, low - income communities, tribes, and other indigenous peoples, whose members may consume fish, aquatic plants, and wildlife in greater quantities than does the general population,» according to a landmark Environmental Protection Agency study published nearly a decade ago.

The investigators found that the incidence of COPD hospitalization was greater in patients with rheumatoid arthritis than in the general population.

Professor Carol Brayne, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, adds: «Even with a reasonably large number of studies of anxiety disorder, data about marginalised groups is hard to find, and these are people who are likely to be at an even greater risk than the general population.

Commenting on the findings, Prof Robert Pirker, programme director for lung cancer at the Vienna General Hospital in Vienna, Austria, not involved in the study, said: «This subgroup analysis shows that the effect of necitumumab was slightly greater in patients with EGFR expressing tumours than it was in the entire SQUIRE population.

People with epilepsy also had a greater likelihood of experiencing domestic violence and sexual abuse than the general population.

«Although the definition of underrepresented minority is evolving to reflect local and regional perspectives, findings from this study demonstrate that faculty who are underrepresented in medicine, relative to the general population, have seen little increase in absolute or percentage representation across all schools during this time period, while the prevalence of individuals of underrepresented minority status in the general population had increased to greater than 30 percent by 2010,» the authors write.

«The elderly living in long - term care facilities have higher influenza exposure risks, lower immune defenses and a much greater likelihood of flu - related death than the general population,» said lead author David A. Nace, M.D., M.P.H., director of long - term care and flu programs in Pitt's Division of Geriatric Medicine and chief medical officer for UPMC Senior Communities.

People who sell sex face a disproportionate risk and burden of HIV; in low - and middle - income countries, female sex workers have a 13.5 times greater chance of HIV infection than women in the general population.

They are also more likely than the general population to be from groups underrepresented in science, so increasing the number of veterans in graduate school could be a step toward greater diversity in the academy.

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.

Rates of depression following discharge are far greater for these patients than for the general population, according to the study.

Patterson explains, «Having sex with strangers does not put people in the sex trade at any greater risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease or infection than the general population» — although having a greater number of partners in general does increase the associated STI risk — and she notes that prostitutes are often very familiar with safer sex practices as their jobs depend on it.

(Remember that the 17 % of dogs and 5 % of cats found to have congenital heart disease in that report is vastly greater than that among the general dog and cat population of California.

The incidence of physical and sexual abuse against both men and women with disabilities is significantly greater than in the general population due to their vulnerability and dependency upon their custodians and care providers.

While anyone may be at risk of suffering a choking injury, many nursing home residents are at greater risk of choking than people in the general population.

The rate of suicides for prisoners awaiting trial is seven and a half times greater than in the general population, and six times greater for those already sentenced.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the crash rate for 16 - year - olds is almost nine times greater than the general population of drivers.

The trial was powered to capture effect sizes reported for parenting trials in general most of which are in clinical or targeted settings where opportunities for improvement are greater than in universal populations.

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.

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.

The prevalence of depression in patients with chronic low back pain is 3 - 4 times greater than in the general population.

Older men with substance use disorders are at greater risk for nonfatal attempts and for death by suicide than are younger persons.10, 11 Past suicide attempts are a strong risk factor for subsequent suicidal behaviors in those with substance use disorders.12 Depressed mood is a risk factor for suicidal behaviors in the general population and also predicts a greater likelihood of suicide in those with alcohol or drug use disorders.3, 6,10 The link between depression and suicidal behaviors in those with substance use disorders may be particularly strong given the high comorbidity between mood and substance use disorders.13 Although it has not been examined thoroughly, independent mood disorders and substance - induced mood disorders are likely to confer risk for suicide.

Similarly, the National Child Development Study in the UK, which has followed up a large general population sample of children born in 1958, found that children from single - parent families were at greater risk for psychological problems than a matched group of children from intact families not only in childhood (Ferri, 1976) but also in early adulthood (Chase - Lansdale et al., 1995) and middle age (Elliot and Vaitilingam, 2008).

Among people with anorexia nervosa — who commonly deprive themselves of food due to an obsessive fear of gaining weight — this rate is more than five times greater than in the general population.

While epidemiological data support that Latino youth are at no greater risk for substance use than the general youth population, some data indicate that they might be at greater risk for the co-morbid effects and consequences of substance use (e.g., school failure, incarceration, poor health).

Siblings of chronically ill children showed no greater likelihood of receiving scores in the clinical range of behaviour problems than children in the general population.

Moreover, establishing contact with a significant proportion of parents through therapy and support centres for children with ASD probably skewed the composition of the group towards greater participation of individuals benefiting from professional support than in the general population of these families.