Sentences with phrase «lower than that of the general population»

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The number of pedophiles in the rcc may not be much different than in the general population, but it appears that the number of priests, or others in authority, that place the safety and future of children above their cult is very low, if not zero, given that not a single «whistle blower» from within the rcc has come forward, to my knowledge.

«The prevalence of pedophilia in the general population is not known, [30][63] but is estimated to be lower than 5 % among adult men.

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.

From Pew: «As a rising cohort of highly unaffiliated millennials reaches adulthood, the median age of unaffiliated adults has dropped to 36, down from 38 in 2007 and far lower than the general (adult) population's median age of 46.»

The average age of death of homeless people is just 47 - 30 years lower than the general population.

Evangelicals have lower science education and participation rates than the general population, suffer from a strain of anti-intellectualism within their ranks, are not always well served by a commitment to revelation over discovery, and possess undue trust in religious leaders — particularly in areas about which those leaders generally have little expertise, he said.

BOSTON — The oral health of ethnic minorities and lower - income groups is much worse than that of the general population, but leveraging social networks and other innovative healthcare delivery channels may help close this troubling gap.

The study found that of the 786 cyclists, 208 (26 %) had died by September 01, 2012 — an SMR of 0.59 and a mortality rate that is 41 % lower than the general population, said Dr. Jouven.

Consumption of contaminated fish «is an especially pressing concern for many communities of color, low - income communities, tribes, and other indigenous peoples, whose members may consume fish, aquatic plants, and wildlife in greater quantities than does the general population,» according to a landmark Environmental Protection Agency study published nearly a decade ago.

This risk appears to be lower among women in the general population (increase 31 %) than for women already at high risk of acquiring HIV such as sex workers.

Then she learned that people with 22q duplication — abnormal repetition, or duplication, of genetic material in chromosome 22 — had learning delays and sometimes autism, but a lower risk for schizophrenia than that found in the general population.

Twins in the study whose genomes showed a low risk for Alzheimer's, for example, did have about a 12 percent (thus, much, much smaller) risk than that of the general population (which, to begin with, has a relatively small risk of getting Alzheimer's during their lifetimes).

And for most of the diseases the researchers studied, people who were classified as low - risk based on their genome still had a risk that was more than half that of the general population — thus, lower than average, but not exactly null.

Across 10 different areas of life, adolescents with cerebral palsy only ranked their quality of friend and peer relationships as on average lower than adolescents in the general population, challenging the widespread perception that adolescents with disabilities have unhappy, unfulfilled lives», says lead author Allan Colver, Professor of Community Child Health at Newcastle University in the UK.

«The elderly living in long - term care facilities have higher influenza exposure risks, lower immune defenses and a much greater likelihood of flu - related death than the general population,» said lead author David A. Nace, M.D., M.P.H., director of long - term care and flu programs in Pitt's Division of Geriatric Medicine and chief medical officer for UPMC Senior Communities.

People who sell sex face a disproportionate risk and burden of HIV; in low - and middle - income countries, female sex workers have a 13.5 times greater chance of HIV infection than women in the general population.

The proportion of dwarf novae may be lower than found in catalogs, or they may have a much smaller duty cycle in general as proposed by some population synthesis models and recent observations in the field.

People with type - 2 diabetes are more likely than the general population to develop cardiovascular disease and have lower levels of heart - protective HDL cholesterol, the authors note.

Epidemiological studies tell us that vegetarians have a lower risk of heart disease — about 24 % lower — than the general population.

A higher incidence of low B12 is found in mental patients than in the general population.

The study participants (nearly 300 of them) had 37 % lower risk for diabetes progression than the general population.

The median urinary iodine concentration of Boston - area vegans (78.5 μg / liter) was lower than in the general U.S. adult population (164 μg / liter)(2) and in the Northeast U.S. population (134 μg / liter)(19).

On all dimensions of health and wellbeing principals score significantly lower than the general population on all positive dimensions and significantly higher on all negative dimensions.

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.

While Trumbull FRL students perform lower than the general population of their school in science, they outperform the statewide average for all students.

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.

The 11 remaining countries surveyed — Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Mexico, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Russia and Turkey — have lower levels of internet connectivity and reflect online populations that tend to be more urban and have higher education / income than the general population.

Beyond this, insurance companies have found that policy holders with higher credit scores are less likely to file claims, so they are able to offer lower prices to this group of customers than to the general population.

Moreover, the prevalence of PTSD symptoms in our sample was higher than that of the general population (8 %) in the USA.57 This finding might be attributed to the fact that the general population's frequency of exposure to serious traumatic events is lower than that of healthcare workers.

The prevalence of depression in patients with chronic low back pain is 3 - 4 times greater than in the general population.

Risk factors lead to developmental delays: Children with risk factors, such as living in low - income households, abuse or neglect, prenatal exposure to alcohol or other substances, and low parental education, have a higher incidence of developmental delays and disabilities than the general population.

The prevalence rates of depression and conduct disorder (each at 9 %) were lower in the primary care setting than those found in the studies of ADHD in the general population.

Caregivers of children with autism had lower HRQOL scores than the general population.

A Wilcoxon signed - rank test indicated that the median mental wellbeing level of the sample (Mdn = 45, min: 25, max: 66) was lower than the median of the general UK population for the 35 — 44 age range (Mdn = 51, Z = − 4.344, p <.001).

Regarding levels of temperament traits, results showed that referred children had significantly lower levels of effortful control than general population children, with less capacity to maintain attentional focus and less capacity to plan and suppress inappropriate response reactions.

We expected that referred children display higher levels of negative affectivity and lower levels of effortful control (and related fine - grained traits) than general population children.

The finding that curative interventions are more effective than preventive interventions may be explained by a lower prevalence of child maltreatment in at - risk families / the general population than in maltreating families, making it «more difficult» to find significant differences between intervention and control groups (because of lower statistical power) and consequently, to prove the effectiveness of an intervention.

Overall, the distributions of the different attachment styles in children living in institutions have been shown to have lower rates of secure and higher rates of disorganised attachment than those observed in children living with their biological parents in the general population (Bakermans - Kranenburg et al. 2011; Katsurada 2007; Muadi et al. 2012; Zeanah et al. 2005).