Sentences with phrase «group than in the general population»

If you are Ashkenazi Jewish, your threshold for getting genetic counseling and testing should be much lower, Freivogel said, because BRCA defects are 10 times more common in that ethnic group than in the general population.

Not exact matches

(24) The CBN organization in 1978 was drawing more than 55 percent of its partners from the conservative and evangelical denominations, even though as a group they formed a much smaller percentage of the general population.

The SMRs were also consistent across all age groups, except for the age - group younger than 30 years in whom a non-significantly higher death rate was observed (SMR 1.65) compared to the general population.

These estimates are orders of magnitude higher than those for the so - called general population in Britain, but comparable with figures for certain other groups at high risk of infection, such as gay men attending clinics for sexually transmitted disease.

The skiers in our study are as a group healthier than 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.

An In - Stat foundEthnic groups provided 20 % more revenue to carriers for certain applications than the general population.

In the case of insurance, avoiding adverse selection requires identifying groups of people more at risk than the general population and charging them more money.

These results are similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.

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).

A large number of individuals with moderately increased risk levels contribute more cases than a small number with extreme risk levels.41 Parenting programmes that target high - risk populations therefore miss a substantial number of families who develop the problem even though they are not currently in the elevated risk group.3, 9,11 The potential impact of such programmes at the population level is therefore minimal as only a small proportion of families in the general population participate in evidence - based programmes.10, 11 As Rose emphasized more than a decade ago, strategies that focus on high - risk individuals will deal only with the margin of the problem and will not have impact on the general population.

Regarding the fine - grained temperament traits, within the dimension negative affectivity, differences were found between the groups only in soothability: the referred children had more difficulty to recover from distress than the general population children.

In the clinically referred group there were significant more children with non-western ethnicity than in the non-referred general population group, although birth countries were missing especially in the population sample [24 (21 %) missings compared to 2 (2 %) in the referred sampleIn the clinically referred group there were significant more children with non-western ethnicity than in the non-referred general population group, although birth countries were missing especially in the population sample [24 (21 %) missings compared to 2 (2 %) in the referred samplein the non-referred general population group, although birth countries were missing especially in the population sample [24 (21 %) missings compared to 2 (2 %) in the referred samplein the population sample [24 (21 %) missings compared to 2 (2 %) in the referred samplein the referred sample].

The finding that curative interventions are more effective than preventive interventions may be explained by a lower prevalence of child maltreatment in at - risk families / the general population than in maltreating families, making it «more difficult» to find significant differences between intervention and control groups (because of lower statistical power) and consequently, to prove the effectiveness of an intervention.

I also note that in the Health and Welfare report that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths from assault were, for various age groups reported at, 10 to 18 times higher than the rate in the general population for males and 6 to 16 times the rate for females over 1999 — 2003.

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.