Sentences with phrase «higher than other populations»

Meanwhile, rates of Type 2 diabetes in older adults are higher than other populations, as about 20 percent of Americans over the age of 65 suffer from the disease.

Not exact matches

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

Though Chicago has a higher number of gun deaths than any other major city, the number of deaths per capita is notably lower than in other cities because of Chicago's large population.

Uncle David: If there are more God - believers in the population, and more of them are attracted to AA because of their belief in the higher power in the first place... it does not necessarily follow that AA's approach is more successful than any other program because of sheer numbers.

Or one can be so concerned with his own comfort and prosperity and the demands of his business, family, or other immediate circle that he can be quite obtuse to the fact that in half of the world's population, there are chronic hunger and malnutrition, high infant mortality, and a much shorter life span than in opulent America.

The fortress was built above the Temple and higher than any other building in Jerusalem so that the Romans could keep constant watch over the population.

In fact, I will let the motivated among you do a little research if you are curious — my state has the highest population use of Facebook than any other state in the country.

In other words, obstetricians are faced with a population that suffers poorer health than other developed countries, yet manage to save the lives of the babies under their care at a comparatively higher rate.

The coalition is concerned that British constituencies are so radically unequal, with some containing a much higher population than others but all returning one MP.

Support for Brexit was much lower among graduates than among other groups in the population, and areas with higher proportions of graduates had a correspondingly lower proportion of Leave voters.

One population seems to have more complex chemistry than the other, containing high levels of calcium.

African - Americans are at higher risk for the ocular complications of diabetes than are other segments of the population.

The 11.5 % rate of anxiety disorders — such phobia, panic or generalized anxiety disorder — was slightly higher than in the general population (9 %), while the prevalence of other mental health diagnoses was similar to rates in 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 researchers used high - resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) at the Museum's Microscopy and Imaging Facility, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Biomaterials Science Center of the University of Basel in Switzerland to scan the skulls of 21 felid specimens, including seven modern cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) from distinct populations, a closely related extinct cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis) that lived in the Pleistocene between about 2.6 million and 126,000 years ago, and more than a dozen other living felid species.

On a per capita basis, Sweden has granted more refugee applications than any other high - income country, and in 2011, refugees constituted 12 % of the total immigrant population.

The study confirmed that the U.S. has substantially higher spending, worse population health outcomes, and worse access to care than other wealthy countries.

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.

The next step, he says, is to broaden the sample pool to determine what factors in the environment and in the microbiome might be making Finns — who are at exceptionally high risk of T1D — more predisposed to the disease than other populations.

But patients who had neurological infections had a higher risk of dying of some other diseases than the general population.

The HIGH population expressed pluripotency genes at a greater frequency than the other cell populations, and as with the previous analysis, Oct - 4 and DNMT3b were in general more uniformly expressed than were nanog, TDGF - 1 or GDF - 3 (Figure 3a — b).

But I've seen other doctors report that the effects are different on a European or European - American population than on Asian populations (those studies were on its effects in Asian women), and that for most American women, green tea actually enhances estrogen production and leads to higher incidence of estrogen - driven cancers.

It was also observed that in the 1960s the prevalence of coronary heart disease among the nomadic pastoralists in Xinjiang in northern China who consumed large quantities of animal fat from grass - fed, free - ranging animals was more than seven times higher than that of other populations both within Xinjiang and throughout China which consumed significantly less animal fat.33 These observations support the suggestion that cardiovascular disease was common among the Mongols of the 13th century who subsisted almost exclusively on a diet based on grass - fed, free - ranging animals.»

What is very well known is that those that suffer from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses are at higher risk than the general population for cardiometabolic diseases, such as high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, etc..

The accomplishments that have earned Match such recognition are even more impressive in light of the students the school serves: in the 2012 — 13 school year, 76 percent of Match High School's student population was classified as low - income, 93 percent of students were black or Hispanic, and 20 percent spoke a first language other than English.

Daniel Dennehy, chief operations officer at UK Essays, acknowledges that this proportion of international students is exceptionally high, especially given that individuals from either other EU or non-EU countries account for less than a quarter of the UK's student population.

Previous ukactive research has emphasised the scale of inactivity among Britons, with 29 per cent of the UK population classed as physically inactive — a higher proportion than most other EU countries, and even the USA.

States, districts and schools serving the highest - need student populations receive more funding than others.

We see that these military families make humongous sacrifices at higher rates than what we've seen among the general population and the national average in our other polling.

This would mean a change of 84 percentage points in the population that is African American, for example, which is larger than the average difference between the most in - boundary neighborhoods with the highest boundary participation rates and others.

Despite the lower percentages of these and other types of special needs students, Capital Prep's performance scores do not reflect corresponding higher achievement; the school, in fact, has a lower performance index score than Hartford Public Schools has for precisely the population that Capital Prep claims to have achieved great success with.

A 2016 report released by the Department of Education revealed that in all but two states, spending on prisons is growing much faster than spending on public education, having quadrupled between 1979 and 2013.100 The United States imprisons people at higher rates than any other country in the world and has a prison population of more than 2 million — the largest in the world.101

Data were suppressed for these students» performance on the Connecticut Day School SAT, but given the other data in the table, it is a reasonable assumption that Trumbull FRL students performed higher than statewide counterparts but lower than the general population of their school.

When higher than average housing prices combine with other problems, such as low household income, high unemployment, declining population and high crime, it can be enough to sink a city to the end of our list.

By far the largest city in the top 10 with a population of over 8 million, New York ranks fifth because its relative total crime differential is the second most favorable among the metropolitan areas evaluated despite having a higher incidence of violent crime than all but one other city on this list (Tucson).

«This is fuelled by overvaluation — meaning house prices remain higher than the level of personal disposable income, population growth and other fundamentals would support.

The report, Race and Financial Capability in America: Understanding the Native American Experience, shows that Native Americans — even more so than other minority populations — face difficult financial circumstances and experience high levels of financial fragility.

San Antonio was No. 1, possibly because of the area's heavy presence of members of the military, who are more likely to carry higher credit card debt than other portions of the population.

This argument has some merit, but it does not explain why Canadian fund expenses are significantly higher than those in other countries with modest population bases, such as Belgium, Australia, Sweden, Norway, and Hong Kong, to name a few.

Even if this estimate is too low because companion animals other than dogs and cats are not included in the estimate or because the fraction of needy companion animals is higher in areas with fewer resources, a revised estimate would still probably be quite low compared to the populations of farm and wild animals.

Thus, we are under the impression that the prevalence of raw chicken consumption is very high in the population of APN dogs that they have diagnosed or treated and that the incidence of APN is possibly higher in Australia than in other countries.»

Unfortunately in the Oakland area we have a high population of pit bulls and their chances in shelters are lower than that of other breeds.

Among the general dog population the incidence of cancer in older dogs may be no higher than other breeds, however early - onset cancers do seem to be more prevalent in Flat - Coats.

On the other side, while there will undoubtedly be high costs to any serious attempt at mitigation, this would also require something like a global agreement (covering at least the rich world, India and China, and probably other states with large and currently poor populations) which would inevitably have to bring in issues other than greenhouse gas emissions — such as those you mention — if only because these states will say, reasonably enough, that they can not bring their populations on board without serious help in those other areas.

We focus most on cities, identifying and tabulating municipalities where committed sea levels would set land that is home to more than half (or other fractions) of the current population below the high tide line.

«Because Americans are high resource consumers in a country with a large, rapidly growing population base, the U.S. has a much bigger «per - person» impact on global climate change than any other nation.»

Yet some combinations of values that lead to high emissions, such as high per - capita income growth and high population growth, appear less likely than other combinations.

(Recent climate models suggest that America's East Coast might see sea levels rising higher and faster than any other population center in the world.)

The main differences today, with respect to extinction potentials, are that anthropogenic climate change is much more rapid and moving global climate outside the bounds living species evolved in, and the global human population, and the pressures people place on other species, are orders of magnitude higher than was the case at the last glacialinterglacial transition (Barnosky et al., 2012).

Wheeling out a discredited argument from the Kyoto years the Abbott Government is now asking the world to give Australia special dispensation to pollute at higher levels because our population is expected to grow more quickly than those of other rich nations.