Sentences with phrase «low body score»

Not exact matches

The children that were able to wait until the experimenter returned experienced better outcomes in life, including higher SAT scores, greater career success, and even lower body mass indexes.

After 5 rounds the decision was made on points, and despite taking a lot of punishment from some brutal low kicks to his left leg, Rees triumphed with a unanimous points win with good scoring knees, takedowns, and kicks to the body.

In follow - up studies these youngsters tended to grow up to be teenagers with lower SAT scores, higher body mass indexes and higher rates of drug abuse.

Instead, an association between muscle strength and cognitive function was observed only when sum scores depicting upper or lower body muscle strength were included in the model.

Sum scores to depict lower body and upper body muscle strength were calculated separately, and cognitive function was assessed using the CERAD neuropsychological test battery with calculated total score.

Overall, the authors found that the rates of low Apgar scores increased with maternal Body Mass Index (BMI): overweight (BMI 25.0 - 29.9) was associated with a 55 % increased risk of low Apgar scores at 5 minutes; obesity grade I (BMI 30 - 34.9) and grade II (BMI 35.0 - 39.9) was associated with a 2-fold increased risk; and obesity grade ΙII (BMI ≥ 40.0) was associated with a more than 3-fold increase in risk.

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in August found depressed blood levels of scores of metabolites in people with the disease compared with healthy controls, suggesting that the disease may push the body into a low - energy state some have compared with hibernation.

Their findings show that children sleeping longer have lower Body Mass Index (BMI) scores than those sleeping less.

Low stress resilience was associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes after adjusting for body mass index, family history of diabetes, and individual and neighbourhood socioeconomic factors — the 20 % of men with the lowest resistance to stress (scores 1 - 3) were 51 % more likely to have been diagnosed with diabetes than the 20 % with the highest resistance to stress (scores 7 - 9) with diabetes risk decreasing in an approximately linear fashion with increased resistance to stress.

The different arms of the trial were very well - matched as regards age (average age ≈ 55 y, ± 5 - 7 y depending on subgroup), education, time from onset of disease, and MDS - UPDRS scores at onset; the only evident differences were a higher number of males and higher body weight in the low - dose treatment group.

Adults who had the highest body mass index scores as children were 2.3 times as likely to have died early as those with the lowest scores.

This lower calorie intake not only leads to their consistently (and sometimes significantly) lower Body Mass Index (BMI) scores, but it is likely a major contributor to their remarkable health and long life spans.

Despite these apparently quite high intakes, there are indications that athletes are under pressure to maintain a low bodyweight or body fat percentage, as dysfunctional eating behaviours and higher scores on eating disorder scales have been observed in female Olympic weightlifters than normal control subjects (Walberg & Johnston, 1991).

The higher people score, the more body fat they tend to lose over time and the lower their risk appears to be of abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high triglycerides.

His sitting - rising test score indicated less than ideal lower - body flexibility (lower back and knees).

If you have gone low carb successfully, you have accomplished a major change in your metabolism, one that involves turning on scores of enzymes your body has not needed or used for a long time, decades in some cases.

We observe that there is virtually no relationship between the relative affluence of the overall student body of the school and the SES test score gap in that school: schools serving primarily high - SES students and those serving primarily low - SES students have the same average SES test score gaps (around 0.8 standard deviations) in both third and fifth grades.

However, note that the average SAT / ACT score is for all students whereas the mobility rate is for low - income students only (who form a relatively small portion of the student body at most colleges).

In other words, schools serving students that tend to score lower, such as low - income and minority students, are compared to schools serving similar student bodies rather than all schools in the state.

Taft's student body is 73 percent low - income, and when Williamson arrived at the school 10 years ago test scores were low, morale was dismal, and student behavior was out of control.

Nearly 18 months after the State Board of Education brought in new management for five schools with low test scores, the same body Wednesday voted to hand oversight of four of those schools to the office of Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard.

In follow - up studies these youngsters tended to grow up to be teenagers with lower SAT scores, higher body mass indexes and higher rates of drug abuse.

And attending a school in which blacks and Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the student body lowers achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whites).

This sweet little filly is emaciated, body score of a 1, which is the lowest you can go, but I feel like she is a -1.

He was a 1 (the lowest rating) on the Canine Body Score Scale, and his skin on his belly and inner thighs was crusted with flea dirt.

Body condition scoring (BCS) can indicate whether a horse is underweight to begin with, but an unexplained shift from one body condition type to another that is lower on the scale would indicate weight lBody condition scoring (BCS) can indicate whether a horse is underweight to begin with, but an unexplained shift from one body condition type to another that is lower on the scale would indicate weight lbody condition type to another that is lower on the scale would indicate weight loss.

We found that the computer workers who had access to the adjustable work surfaces also reported significantly less musculoskeletal upper - body discomfort, lower afternoon discomfort scores and significantly more productivity,» said Alan Hedge, professor of design and environmental analysis in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell and director of Cornell's Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory.

Baseline high negative affect resulted in less reduction in body mass index (F1, 192 = 4.3; P <.05; weight [in kilograms], F1.192 = 4.1; P <.05) and the BDI score (F1, 192 = 4.5; P <.05) than low negative affect.

This evaluation found that children who received drug education reported better coping skills and resiliency, a better understanding of the impact of drugs on the body and a lower risk taking score than those who received no drug education.

The School Drug Education and Road Aware Evaluation (Edith Cowan University, 2011) found that children who received drug education reported better coping skills and resiliency, a better understanding of the impact of drugs on the body and a lower risk taking score than those who received no drug education.