Sentences with phrase «higher than for some adult»

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«At a time when young adults and families are struggling more than ever to pay for higher education, they simply can't afford to have more financial support eliminated by this tax plan,» said Reid Setzer, Young Invincibles» director of government affairs.

Perhaps most impressive may have been the $ 124.5 million raked in by the young - adult weeper The Fault in our Stars, which was produced for only around $ 12 million — but still made more than a number of high - priced bombs like Warner Brothers» (TWX) Edge of Tomorrow.

But given the rise of news organizations aimed at younger adults, and the relatively high news consumption rates of young adults on social media and elsewhere, the reality may be more challenging for news organizations than that.

Annual healthcare spending per head is 2.6 times higher for persons aged 65 - 84 compared with adults less than 65 years old, and 5.7 times higher for persons aged 85 and over.

Working for themselves is also top of mind for many millennials with 74 per cent saying they thought of owning their own business, 11 percentage points higher than the average Canadian adult.

On average, the Gallup Youth Survey documents teen church attendance that is 10 percentage points higher than the national figures for all adults.

Any adult mammal will be higher on the continuum than any fetus, for one is reaching its apex, while the other is just beginning its ascent.

A study by LifeWay Research reveals that «more than two - thirds of young adults who attend a Protestant church for at least a year in high school will stop attending church...

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

The number of adult cattle processed in the eastern states for the January — March period, also as reported by MLA, was 4pc higher than the same time last year, but down 9pc from 2016 levels.

Serving over 20 million guests annually, Main Event offers state - of - the - art bowling, more than 100 virtual and interactive games, multi-level laser tag, chef - inspired dining and a high - energy, full - service bar, making it the perfect place for families, young adults and groups of all ages to Head for Fun.

These parents are looking for a comprehensive academic program and they realize that the development of their child into a fulfilled adult requires more than intellectual attainment, it involves social skills, self - knowledge, vision and will to aim high and overcome obstacles.

The long - term study of more than 3,000 men and women in Copenhagen found that those who were breastfed for 7 to 9 months averaged IQ scores that were 6.6 points higher at age 27 than adults who were nursed for 1 month or less.

It is raised furniture for babies, suitable for spoon - feeding babies, as the chair is raised above the ground, usually more than a meter high to make it convenient for the adult to feed in a standing position.

The AAP points out that the choking risk is higher for young children than adults for several reasons.

This stroller has higher handlebars than most other umbrella strollers and handgrips that turn in, providing a more comfortable grasp for even the tallest adults.

Apparently, the boss thinks that her high school age daughter is better equipped to be pregnant and care for a child than an adult who has a job.

And while eating for two means that you need additional energy and a higher caloric intake, it's important to keep in mind that the «number two» you're eating for is significantly smaller than you or any average - sized adult.

Children face the highest risks, because their bodies are still developing and their exposures are higher than adults», pound for pound.

Furthermore, a child who is obese by age 12 has more than a 75 percent chance of becoming an obese adult, at risk for Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, hypertension, high blood pressure, gallbladder disease, asthma and certain cancers.

My 18 month old has never had any milk and I substitute that in his diet with food high in calcium - like collard greens (more calcium per cup than milk) and blackstrap molasses (20 % daily value for adults in only ONE tablespoon).

It found that adults in Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed - Stuy and East New York had higher rates of emergency room visits for asthma than other neighborhoods.

Teachout spoke to the mostly multi-aged crowd, sprinkled with children, students, adults and senior citizens, saying that she has a vision for New York that will make public higher education affordable; a New York that «should be leading the way in renewable resources» and environmental policies; a New York that bans fracking and all fracking byproducts; and a New York that «supports small local businesses and farms, rather than giving tax breaks to corporate campaign donors.»

A majority of adults from both political parties say the future of the nation is a source of stress, though the number is significantly higher for Democrats (73 percent) than for Republicans (56 percent) and independents (59 percent).

The risk of riding with an impaired driver was much higher for peer drivers than for older adult drivers (21 percent vs. 2.4 percent for marijuana, 17 percent vs. 4 percent for alcohol, and 5.4 percent vs. less than 1 percent for illicit drugs).

For example, around one in ten adults (10.9 %) with cardiovascular disease and living in Western countries are affected by generalised anxiety disorder, with women showing higher anxiety levels than men.

A generation of young adults raised on electronic devices has a high affinity for the gadgets and engages in less face - to - face contact than was once the norm, he says.

He notes, however, if an older adult's risk for dementia continues declining as it has in some high - income countries over the last few decades, «that increase in number of cases may be a little less eye - popping than it would be if the risk were staying the same.»

In addition, studies have shown that the five - year mortality rate for older adults with olfactory dysfunction is higher than are rates for adults with heart failure, diabetes, or cancer.

The higher costs are partly because the coverage under the ACA is required to be more comprehensive than many existing plans, and because the premiums paid by young, healthy people are helping to subsidize lower costs for older adults.

When the researchers asked adults to rate the children's productions for how much they looked like English words, they found that the adults gave higher ratings, on average, to the productions of older prephonological spellers than to the productions of younger prephonological spellers.

CDC calculates that roughly 75 % of the infected population comes from the baby boomer generation: 3.25 % of people born in that «birth cohort» test positive for HCV, which is five times higher than adults born before 1945 or after 1965.

Not only do we kill other animals at much higher rates than other predators, but our ability to bring down larger adults can make it very difficult for some prey populations to recover.

Additionally, young - adult dyslexic readers maintained high connectivity to brain regions involved in phonology, suggesting that they continue to rely on effortful «sounding out» strategies into adulthood rather than transitioning to more automatic, visual - based strategies for word recognition.

In 2015 and 2016, current tobacco use prevalence was about 10 % for adults in higher income households (greater than 400 % of the Federal Poverty Level) compared with almost 25 % for adults in households below the poverty line.

A treatment group of mice were given an intake of folic acid 20 times greater than the RDA for humans: while the folic acid dosage consumed by most adults is lower and taken over a longer period of time, a higher dose was used in this study to account for the fact that mice are more efficient in metabolizing folic acid than humans.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

In fact, the Food and Drug Administration's approval of pembrolizumab in May 2017 for adult and pediatric patients with solid tumors and high microsatellite instability, was the first time it had approved a cancer treatment based on a genetic feature rather than the cancer's location of origin.

More than one - third of adults in China have high blood pressure — often dubbed the «silent killer» for its lack of symptoms — but...

Sun found that the fat stem cells actually express higher starting levels of two of the four reprogramming genes than do adult skin cells — suggesting that these cells are already primed for change.

In subadults and adults, the picture is reversed — high - ranking females exhibit a higher infection probability than low - ranking females whereas mortality was similar for both groups.

For example, the researchers said «white adults had a higher prevalence of diagnosed type 1 diabetes than did Hispanic adults,» while «blacks had the highest prevalence of diagnosed type 2 diabetes.»

«The rates among 1 - year - olds are 1.5 times higher than the highest rate of [eye] injury for working - age adults,» said Haring, a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

Children have higher carbohydrate requirements than adults, making this recipe is a great choice for kids.

This is the reason why (at least in America) the recommended calcium intake for seniors is about 20 % higher than it is for younger adults.

The AI was arbitrarily set by the DRI committee at 1,500 mg sodium or a little more than one half teaspoon (3 grams) of salt per day for young adults ``... to ensure that the overall diet provides an adequate intake of other important nutrients and to cover sodium sweat losses in unacclimatized individuals who are exposed to high temperatures or who become physically active...» However, no supporting information on young adults was provided to confirm that this arbitrary figure was in any way justified.

Better than 50 adults have to take a cholesterol - lowering drug for 1 patient to avoid a mortal heart attack, and that figure only applies to high - risk patients.

Moreover, the doses used in these studies (approximately 1,500 — 6,000 mcg per day) are several times higher than the iodine UL of 1,100 mcg for adults.

Children with high - grade tumors (grades III and IV) tend to do better than adults; five - year survival for children is about 25 %.

The fiber intake was estimated at 42.5 grams, which is higher than the 25 to 38 grams recommended for adults.