Sentences with phrase «lower than the general population»

I believe that the ratio is markedly lower than the general population.

Both groups molest children at rates lower than the general population.

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Homosexuals reproduce at much lower levels than 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.

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.»

It says «the women that choose home birth are lower risk than the general population», and that's ALL that sentence says.

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.

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.

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.

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.

People with learning (intellectual) disabilities have a lower life expectancy than the general population and are more likely to suffer physical disabilities and chronic conditions.

On average, women in the study had even slightly lower HCB blood concentrations than those measured in the general population.

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.

Some immigrant groups (from Northern and Southern Europe and East Asia, for example) had lower rates than the general population.

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.

We have previously shown that besides higher leisure time physical activity, the participants in Vasaloppet smoke less, have lower fat and higher fibre consumption and better physical and mental health than 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.

If you are Ashkenazi Jewish, your threshold for getting genetic counseling and testing should be much lower, Freivogel said, because BRCA defects are 10 times more common in that ethnic group than in the general population.

A new study finds that, even in towns along major drug trafficking routes, immigrants use illicit drugs at lower rates than the general U.S. population.

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.

Diabetics also have far lower magnesium levels than the general population.

Copper deficiency is much more common than zinc deficiency in the general population, so it must be far more common among low - carb Paleo dieters.

Past research has shown that patients with congestive heart failure tend to have lower magnesium levels 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).

The dress does run true to size, and I had to size up as I have a wider rib cage / lower waist than the general population.

(Knowles fellows have lower attrition rates than the general teaching population.)

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.

African Americans strongly backed that program because they were poorer than the general population, and their children were more likely to attend low - performing schools which received extra Title I dollars and attention.

First - time home buyers tend to have lower credit scores than the general population, and that's okay.

First - time home buyers tend to have lower credit scores than the general population.

Forty years ago, canine distichiasis had a low prevalence in the general dog population (1:133)[19], and it was suggested that a few breeds might be more commonly affected than others [5, 15, 19].

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.

What Consumer Credit Data Reveals About Auto Insurance Shoppers Customers with lower credit - based insurance scores shop most frequently while consumers with the highest insurance scores are less likely than the general population to shop for new auto insurance.