Sentences with phrase «higher than the general population»

CEOs tend to score higher than the general population on personality attributes such achievement - orientation, ambition, assertiveness, and risk - preference.

The military spouse unemployment rate sits around 26 percent — much higher than the general population — and military spouses are likely to make 38 percent less than their civilian counterpart.

The AG's rate of expansion since 1989 has been even higher than the general population growth, the denomination reported.

This number is much higher than the general population, but about the same level during the 2008 election.

I would even go so far as to say that the percentage of BW moms who are still breastfeeding at 6 months and one year is HIGHER than the general population.

But new research by Jake, a networking organisation for gay professionals, suggests a worrying trend for Labour, with 38 % of Jake members who took part saying they would vote Conservative at the next election, 1 % higher than the general population, according to an average of recent opinion polls.

Fifty to 83 percent of people in prison smoke — substantially higher than the general population outside prison.

Risk for suicide in bipolar disorder is 30 times higher than the general population.

They found that the prevalence of EoE in subjects with celiac disease is 10x higher than the general population in the majority of the studies.

It is most obviously demonstrated with the increased chance (five to seven times higher than the general population) for people with chronic inflammatory diseases.

Suicide risks for primary teachers in England was 42 per cent higher than the general population during the period 2011 to 2015.

Studies of college enrollment and graduation rates of scholarship alumni have shown that, despite coming from socioeconomic backgrounds associated with lower rates of college enrollment, Children's Scholarship Fund students enroll in college at an average rate that is similar to or higher than the general population.

According to a recent study, veterinarians kill themselves at a rate four times higher than the general population and one in six have considered suicide.

According to the American Bar Association Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs, the rate of addiction amongst lawyers is estimated to be 50 % higher than the general population.

Those described by their peers as «excellent lawyers» scored 20 % higher than the general population in urgency, so perhaps prizing efficiency and economy in all matter is their secret to success.

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.

77 % of Indigenous inmates had previously been sentenced to an adult prison (total imprisonment rate 13x higher than the general population)

In my experience, clients who are diagnosed with ASP, BPD, BD and schizophrenia have histories of ACEs much higher than the general population.

Not exact matches

Also, podcast listeners are more likely to share on social networks, and they have higher income than the general population, according to Edison's research.

«But that's not the case with mental - health issues,» including depression, which he believes affects entrepreneurs at a higher rate than the general population.

At the same time, nearly one in four African American, Hispanic, and Asian business owners plans to apply for credit in the next 12 months, higher than the general small business owner population planning to pursue credit (15 %).

Use online screening tools to identify the patients at higher risk than the general population, so you can focus more time on analyzing data than gathering it from scratch.

Similarly, the growth in the Aboriginal population is much faster than the growth in the general population and prices experienced on reserves are significantly higher than in urban centers.

According to the Liberal's election platform, seniors face higher inflation than the general Canadian population and by non-senior families.

And yet Gulf War II - era vets still face higher unemployment rates than the general population — 15.5 % for female vets, 9.2 % for male vets.

I've seen figures that high, or higher, among drug users and prison inmates, but you are looking at less than 1/20 in the general population.

Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

It thus appears that even those, such as Father Nugent, who have reason to accentuate the prevalence of homosexuality allow that the ratio of homosexuality in the priesthood is not that much higher than in 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 a study of former NFL players, Guskiewicz found that suffering multiple concussions can make athletes more vulnerable to depression later in life and, last year, data revealed that retired NFL players suffered from higher rates of dementia and Alzheimer's than the general population.

It seems as if women are trading their low - risk status in for a nonhospital birth, and thereby actually becoming higher in risk than the general population.

«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.

District officials were alarmed last year when preliminary data collected by school nurses showed that Chicago children, from preschool to 3rd grade, have higher levels of obesity than the general U.S. population.

Unintended pregnancy rates among women with substance use disorders are approximately 80 %, considerably higher than in the general population.

Our results emphasised what is already known - that OSA is very common in patients with Type 2 diabetes, much higher than OSA prevalence in the general population.

And while young people in general tend to vote at lower rates than the population as a whole, the signs are that student turnout in 2015 will be high.

And because a higher proportion of young people vote Democratic than the general population, the net effect of Facebook's GOTV effort would have been to help the Dems.

Rep. Richard Hanna says Congress should help determine why America's firefighters have a higher rate of cancer than the general population, and what risk factors might be to blame.

More than 70 per cent of the prison population has two or more mental health disorders, and the suicide rate in prisons is almost 15 times higher than in the general population.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna says Congress should help determine why America's firefighters have a higher rate of cancer than the general population, and what risk factors might be to blame.

There, people are at a higher risk of suicide than the general population.

A similar study that specifically addressed the relationship between burnout and suicidal thoughts found half of the 4287 surveyed medical students were feeling burned out and 11 % had thought about suicide in the previous year, a figure substantially higher than that in the general population.

In HIV - infected adults, the combined rates of osteopenia and osteoporosis are as high as 90 percent in men and 60 percent in women, with related fractures 60 percent higher than in the general population.

Large observational studies like the Framingham Heart Study have shown that in the general population, those with lower HDL are more likely to have heart attacks than those with higher HDL.

In the latest trial, reported in the October issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, the vaccine prevented 70 % of severe diarrhea cases on American Indian reservations, where incidence rates are higher than in the general U.S. 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.

«Both estimates are higher than published rates for the general U.S. population, suggesting that special attention should be paid to these conditions among bariatric patients,» the researchers write.

Study participants had blood levels of BPA similar to those recorded in pregnant women but higher than those typically seen in the general population, according to the study, which was published in September.

Such younger siblings have a 1 in 5 chance of developing autism — 14 times higher than children in the general population.