Sentences with phrase «lower than those of an adult»

Additionally, their liver and kidneys are immature which means their dosage is often much lower than that of an adult dog.

Research indicates that the recidivism rate for young people who sexually offend is significantly lower than that of adult sex offenders (Alexander, 1999; Hagan et al., 1994; Kahn & Chambers, 1991).

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A study of 3.5 million American adults discovered that married people have a 5 percent lower chance of cardiovascular disease than those who are single, divorced or widowed.

In 2013, only 3.6 percent of households headed by adults younger than 30 owned stakes in private companies — a 24 - year low.

The cyclists were found to have more muscle mass and strength and lower levels of body fat and cholesterol than the sedentary adults.

The proportion of adults who are either working or looking for work fell last month to 62.7 percent, slightly lower than a year ago.

The science doesn't lie: A 2011 Harvard study found that adults with the highest concentration of BPA in their urine had significantly larger waists and odds of being obese than those in the lowest quartile.

The percentage of adults thankful for the economic situation in the U.S. is lower than in 2010 and about a fifth of what it was in the mid-1980s, according to a new poll.

Lower - income adults obtained a significantly greater proportion of added sugars from stores than did higher - income adults.

In a study issued this week (Aug. 11 - 15), Goldman Sachs Bank USA economists Eli Hackle and Hui Shan showed that the homeownership rate of young adults, ages 25 - 34, who were carrying more than $ 50,000 in student, was 8 percentage points lower than for college graduates with less than $ 50,000 in student debt.

Lower - income (IPR < 1.0) adults consumed significantly more added sugars and derived a significantly greater proportion of added sugars from grocery stores than did higher - income adults (IPR ≥ 4).

The survey of 903 adults aged 50 or older, who are either already retired or plan to retire in the next ten years, revealed those who began receiving Social Security income early report a lower average monthly payment ($ 1,190) than those who started at their full retirement age ($ 1,506) and those who delayed benefits until age 70 ($ 1,924).

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

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

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.»

These laws, known as «Romeo and Juliet laws» provide that a person can legally have consensual intercourse with a minor provided that he or she is not more than a given number of years older generally four years but sometimes some other number of years Romeo and Juliet laws were passed Several ped membership org endorsed lowering or abolishing age of consent laws to legalize fleshly activities involving an adult and a child.

Doses as low as 54 milligrams in an average - sized adult female (far less than a quarter of a teaspoon) can cause an increased risk of phocomelia — a decrease in the size of the upper limbs.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

The downgrade came after sales of adult milk powder for the March quarter were lower than expected, with the decline continuing into April.

They found adults who lived on at least an 80 per cent organic diet for a week had significantly lower organophosphate pesticide residues in their urine than those who ate a diet of conventional foods.

One study finds that «despite living in an age of iPads and hybrid cars, young Americans are more like the young adults of the early 1900s than the baby - boom generation: They are living at home longer, are financially insecure, and are making lower wages.»

Adults who didn't attend college and have a low household income are more likely to be divorced — Non-college educated couples are nearly 20 % more likely to get divorced within the first 10 years of marriage than college - educated couples.

Adult children of divorce tend to have: lower paying jobs and less college than their parents; unstable father - child relationships; a history of vulnerability to drugs and alcohol in adolescence; fears about commitment and divorce; and negative memories of the legal system that forced custody and visitation.

Each day across the United States, more than 4 million children, many from low - income families, receive meals and snacks through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP).

Our observations of reduced fever at 1 month and reduced stuffy nose at 6 months associated with nonprone sleep positions are consistent with this hypothesis, as is the reported observation that adults with upper respiratory tract infections have lower nasal bacterial counts after lying supine for 1 hour vs lying prone for 1 hour.11 Also, infants sleeping supine swallow more frequently than infants sleeping prone in response to a pharyngeal fluid stimulus, suggesting more effective clearing of nasopharyngeal secretions in the supine position and, hence, less potential for eustachian tube obstruction and fewer ear infections.12

Indeed, according to FRAC, in 2008, the number of people (adults and children) falling in the «very low food security» category more than doubled since 2000.

NIGHTTIME PARENTING helps parents understand why babies sleep differently than adults, offers solutions to nighttime problems and even describes how certain styles of nighttime parenting can aid in child spacing and lower the risks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Mean fasting insulin concentrations in children and adults showed a tendency to be lower in the breastfed subjects than in the formula - fed subjects, which raises the possibility of emerging differences in insulin resistance between the breastfed and formula - fed groups.

That's a very misleading account of Labour's record with pensioners: we have a much lower level of pensioner poverty, and for the first time in British history, pensioners are less likely to be in poverty than other adults.

Writing in the New Statesman last week on «how if you are young in Britain today, you are being taken for a ride», Danny Dorling, the Halford Mackinder professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, points out a new trend where young adults «face the prospect of having lower living standards than those of their parents».

Adults in the Community of Madrid who say to perform high or mild levels of total physical activity present higher levels of mental health than those performing low levels of physical activity.

The study found that people who were in the lowest 25 percent of the sample for socio - economic status as children had 65 percent worse self - reported health as adults than people who were in the top 75 percent of the sample as children.

However, when the vaccines» effectiveness was examined in different age groups, they were shown to be less effective in adults over 18 years than in children, and effectiveness was lowest in adults over 50 years of age.

Nationwide, adults experienced a larger decrease in the percentage of uninsured than Texas, especially among those with the lowest incomes.

Children born before 34 weeks gestation have poorer reading and maths skills than those born at full term, and the difficulties they experience at school continue to have effects into adulthood: by the age of 42, adults who were born prematurely have lower incomes and are less likely to own their own home than those born at full term.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

In February 2008 a study revealed that baby boys who are born either short or with low birth weight are more likely to commit violent suicide as adults than longer and heavier babies are, irrespective of their height and weight as adults.

Even though early detection of vision difficulties may lead to better quality of life, greater independence and a lower risk of falls in older adults, routine screening doesn't appear more effective than only testing patients with symptoms, the USPSTF reports in JAMA March 1.

Indeed, the diversity of T cell receptors generated before birth is known to be lower than in adults, increasing the odds of two unrelated people sharing the same receptor.

Those whose family meals were all home - cooked also had lower odds of obesity than other adults who ate some or no home - cooked meals.

Infants pay more attention to the high - pitch speech of their moms than the low notes of normal adult conversation, earlier research has shown.

Results of a new study led by researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science show that adult blue crabs are much more tolerant of low - oxygen, «hypoxic» conditions than previously thought.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The burden of diabetes, both in terms of prevalence and number of adults affected, has increased more faster in low - income and middle - income countries than in high - income countries.

In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, older adults who scored high on cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) tests performed better on memory tasks than those who had low CRF.

African Americans at lower socioeconomic levels, particularly women and younger adults, are at greater risk of heart disease and stroke than those in higher socioeconomic positions, according to research in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Physical activity among children and teens is lower than previously thought, and, in another surprise finding, young adults after the age of 20 show the only increases in activity over the lifespan, suggests a study conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

An analysis of more than 17,000 adults has found that coffee drinkers have a 7 per cent lower risk of developing heart failure for every cup of coffee they consume per week.

In 2012, the year in which Arctic sea ice hit a record low, 69 percent of the tracked adult females in the Beaufort Sea swam more than 31 miles (50 kilometers) at least once.

The survey also indicates that while opioid overdose rates remain high among adults, teens are misusing opioid pain medications less frequently than a decade ago, and are at historic lows with some of the commonly used pain medications.