Sentences with phrase «increased socioeconomic status»

The findings suggest that although there may be long - term health benefits associated with increased socioeconomic status, there may also be consequences due to the subsequent mental and physical strain.

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Guthman does acknowledge that Body Mass Index (BMI) has increased in America since 1980, but insists there's no evidence that people eat more than previous generations, nor that the varying incidence of obesity with socioeconomic status is due to differences in energy intake.

They controlled for other variables like socioeconomic status and the weight of the children who ate school lunches had significantly increased.

In previous studies of full - term infants, ascertainment of morbidity status occurred after discharge from the hospital, increasing the potential for confounding related to the home environment, parental socioeconomic status, parental smoking, and differential access to health care.

Increase awareness of disparities in the etiologies, treatments and outcomes of traumatic childbirth based on race / ethnicity, religious affiliation, socioeconomic status, disability, sexual orientation, gender diversity, and other underserved populations

Future interventions to increase rates of institutional birth should address structural barriers including, differences in socioeconomic status, social support, and birth preparedness.»

The last link addressed the issue best, I thought: «The increase in risk of severe maternal morbidities in non-white women seems to be independent of differences in age, socioeconomic and smoking status, body mass index, and parity between ethnic groups.»

The most recent survey data showed increased risk of hearing loss among participants of racial / ethnic minority status and from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

«The U.S. has experienced a 400 percent increase in overdoses due to prescription opioid pain relievers among women of reproductive age between 1999 and 2010, and those deaths are concentrated among white women in rural areas, and those with lower socioeconomic status,» said Jarlenski.

She said that increasing awareness of colorectal cancer in lower socioeconomic status (SES) areas could help decrease colorectal cancer deaths and the associated economic losses.

The analyses were adjusted for other medication increasing the risk of fall, osteoporosis, socioeconomic status, long - term hospital care, history of psychiatric diseases, and chronic diseases increasing the risk of fall or fracture.

«That consistent increase suggests factors other than differences in socioeconomic status play a strong role in the excess odds seen in black women.

«We do want to test at these higher cognitive levels, but we don't want to increase the performance gaps between male and female students, as well as between lower and higher socioeconomic status students.»

«Our findings underscore the need for increased awareness and education about prevention and early detection and treatment of CVD in African American women and younger adults of low socioeconomic status,» said Samson Y. Gebreab, Ph.D., M.Sc., lead study author and research scientist at the National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.

Writing in a linked Comment, Alyssa Rheingold from the Medical University of South Carolina in the USA says, «Research suggests that risk factors among patient victims such as substance use, low socioeconomic status, type of psychopathology, and engagement in behaviours that increase risk could be targeted.

In patients admitted to the hospital for asthma, illicit drug use and low socioeconomic status were linked with an increased risk of requiring admission to the intensive care unit.

Analysis of geospatial data and socioeconomic status demonstrated a connection between the likelihood of Zika infection and increased poverty.

Instructed to attend to only one of two competing stories — «The Blue Kangaroo» vs. «Harry the Dog,» for example — the children whose parents had received additional attention instruction showed a 50 percent increase in brain activity in response to the correct story compared to children in the other two groups, the authors report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; their responses matched those seen in adults and children of higher socioeconomic status.

He emphasized that the results of the study did not find that the vast majority of MOOC users live in neighborhoods where everyone is well - educated and high - earning — just that the probability of enrolling increases with higher socioeconomic status.

They found that increasing maternal C - reactive protein levels were significantly associated with development of schizophrenia in offspring and remained significant after adjusting for potential confounders such as parental history of psychiatric disorders, twin / singleton birth, location of birth, and maternal socioeconomic status.

«The association we found in young and midlife adults suggests why those raised by parents of relatively low socioeconomic status may be at increased risk for disease throughout adulthood.»

«Is this risk increased due to genetics, socioeconomic status and access to care, or due to contributing medical problems such as hypertension?

Striking sex and regional differences in the increase of obesity - related T2DM prevalence developed throughout the last 3 decades, reflecting complex relationships with differences in ethnicity, migration, culture, lifestyle, gene - environment interactions, socioeconomic status (SES) and social roles (12).

But virtually all of the increased risk associated with IVF, which involves fertilizing eggs outside the body and placing one or more embryos in the mother's uterus, could be attributed to the health and demographic profile of the mother, including her age, body mass index, socioeconomic status, and any health conditions (such as diabetes) she may have experienced before or during pregnancy.

Furthermore, by restricting to educated participants with a higher socioeconomic status, and by consistently adjusting for major confounders across all three cohorts, we were able to reduce residual confounding by these factors and increase statistical power.

Simply put, just because a 22.7 percent spending increase is large enough to eliminate the average outcome differences between the poor and non-poor it does not mean that a 22.7 percent spending increase is large enough to eliminate the difference in outcome between the very poor and the very wealthy or differences across other measures of socioeconomic status.

This significant increase in residential sorting by income among families with school - age children would have likely led to far greater disparities in school resources by community socioeconomic status had SFRs not been an effective leveling tool.

We do not find that increasing spending by 22.7 percent will eliminate all differences in outcomes by socioeconomic status.

Associated with this increasing disparity have been increasing differences in performance in low and high socioeconomic status schools.

They find that not only do greater accountability, autonomy, and choice (in various configurations) in a country's school system boost student achievement, they also boost noncognitive skills and increase equity (breaking the link between student achievement and socioeconomic status).

What we found was that the delay in the school start time did in fact increase academic performance in the GCSE examinations and that this increase was more pronounced in individuals who come from a deprived background — who have a lower socioeconomic status.

However, it turns out that the black children in our sample were less responsive to changes in socioeconomic status than the white children: a one - standard - deviation improvement in socioeconomic status for a black child was associated with a 0.18 standard deviation increase in math scores, compared with 0.32 among white children.

Completion of more - advanced math courses increased the predicted probability of college graduation even when the authors controlled for demographic traits, socioeconomic status, family and school characteristics, and overall measures of math ability (i.e., math GPA and grade 10 math test score).

Successful integration programs have shown that community consensus takes time to build and is imperative to the improvement of schools and increased academic achievement for all students regardless of socioeconomic status.

Despite the growing diversity of the nation's school - aged population, the embrace of school choice policy across the country has coincided with an increase in segregation across race, socioeconomic status, and student ability.

While the overall U.S. performance fell far behind top performers, such as Singapore, Japan, and Canada, the United States made the biggest improvement in equity from 2006 to 2015, increasing its percentage of «resilient students» — defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status — by 12 percentage points, as shown in the below image from the report.

Specifically, the United States had the largest increase — 12 percentage points — in the percentage of «resilient» students, defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status.

The authors also reported a reduction in teenage parenthood and increases in neighborhood socioeconomic status (as measured by the fraction of neighbors with a college education) and savings (as indicated by having a 401k retirement account).

As teachers participate in developing plans for growth, they build increased capacity to meet the growing needs of students, no matter their race, origin, language, or socioeconomic status.

Although volunteers» demographic and socioeconomic characteristics are discussed separately below, many are related to each other and interact in predictable ways; for example, income increases with education and marital status changes with age.

Significant investments may be required to ensure that power generation keeps up with rising demand associated with rising temperatures.38, 39 Finally, vulnerability to heat waves is not evenly distributed throughout urban areas; outdoor versus indoor air temperatures, air quality, baseline health, and access to air conditioning are all dependent on socioeconomic factors.29 Socioeconomic factors that tend to increase vulnerability to such hazards include race and ethnicity (being a minority), age (the elderly and children), gender (female), socioeconomic status (low income, status, or poverty), and education (low educationalsocioeconomic factors.29 Socioeconomic factors that tend to increase vulnerability to such hazards include race and ethnicity (being a minority), age (the elderly and children), gender (female), socioeconomic status (low income, status, or poverty), and education (low educationalSocioeconomic factors that tend to increase vulnerability to such hazards include race and ethnicity (being a minority), age (the elderly and children), gender (female), socioeconomic status (low income, status, or poverty), and education (low educationalsocioeconomic status (low income, status, or poverty), and education (low educational attainment).

Virtually everyone uses verbal fillers, though the frequency can vary greatly from person to person.18 A study of one language database showed that speakers produced between 1.2 and 88.5 uhs and ums for every thousand words, with a median filler rate of 17.3 per thousand words.19 Other databases show anywhere from three to twenty uhs and ums for every thousand words, placing uh and um thirty - first in a ranking of most commonly used utterances, just ahead of or and just after not.20 A British study showed that, contrary to popular expectations, the use of verbal fillers does not indicate a lack of education or manners; instead, the use of uh and um increases with education and socioeconomic status, a finding with particular implications for the legal profession.21 Older people use more uhs and ums than younger people, and, curiously, men consistently use verbal fillers more often than women — a finding that has been replicated across several studies.22 Women, for their part, appear to use a higher ratio of ums to uhs than their male counterparts.23

In the Indigenous cohort, maternal age at birth (< 20 years: OR = 1.45, 95 % CI 1.30 to 1.60), socioeconomic status (most disadvantaged 10 %: OR = 1.44, 95 % CI 1.24 to 1.67) and parity (three or more siblings: OR = 1.85, 95 % CI 1.64 to 2.08) were associated with increased odds of poor attendance.

Independent of obesity, sex, and socioeconomic status and unrelated to sleep apnea, adolescents with poor sleep had a 3.5-fold increased risk of prehypertension or hypertension.

97 Longitudinal research has linked heavy exposure to television violence in childhood to increased social aggression in adult females, even after controlling for childhood aggression, childhood IQ, parental education, parental TV habits, and the socioeconomic status of the family.98 Although these studies are suggestive, it will not be possible to draw conclusions about whether media violence causes this alternative form of childhood aggression until more research is conducted.

It is also possible that the relatively small effect of maternal feeding behaviors is overwhelmed by cofounders such as television viewing or consumption of calorically dense foods (eg, sweets or French fries), which are, like maternal feeding behaviors, associated with both markers of socioeconomic status (58, 59) and adiposity (58, 60) and an increase in frequency between ages 15 and 36 mo (61, 62).

However, similarity and attraction are not limited to personality characteristics.2 Matching on other factors like age, education, socioeconomic status, physical attractiveness, attitudes, and even name - letter initials has been linked to increased attraction and relationship satisfaction.3, 4,5,6 Despite the overabundance of scientifically - validated literature on the topic, I think no one has described the phenomenon better than Jerry Seinfeld when he said,

Increases student achievement regardless of socioeconomic status, ethnic or racial background, or parents» education level

Associations of increased trainee prescribing included patient older age, male gender, Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander status, more rural location and lower socioeconomic location.

Stress responsivity and socioeconomic status: A mechanism for increased cardiovascular risk?