Sentences with phrase «people affect populations»

Predation is not the only way that people affect populations.

Not exact matches

However, these odds don't factor in a person's individual behaviors, age, sex, location, or other things that can affect risks — they're averages of the entire US population.

Yet a lack of sleep affects about 40 percent of the population, with roughly 20 percent of people suffering from insomnia.

Acknowledging this, however, would call into question the revelation vouchsafed to another of the new environmentalism's ideological allies, the population - control movement: namely, that people are a pollutant» a pernicious idea, born of the earlier progressivist eugenics movement and brought to a popular boil in the Sixties by evidence - light propagandists like Paul Ehrlich, that continues to affect U.S. foreign - aid policy to this day.

In recent years the poorer regions of the earth have been swept by a «population revolution» which, though it has attracted comparatively little attention, is nevertheless both unprecedented and pregnant with consequences for the peoples of the countries affected.

In addition, not that many people are affected by the lie — less than five percent of the population — so it's not important enough to endanger Obama care.

According to the World Health Organisation, iron deficiency is the most common and widespread nutritional disorder in the world and affects more than two billion people (30 % of the world's population).

people with non-coeliac gluten sensitivity, which is estimated to affect 5 - 10 per cent of the population.

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Parasomnias affect about 10 % of the population and can occur in people of all ages, but they are seen most often in children.

Few people outside of the trans community paid much attention to the report — perhaps unsurprisingly, as despite the committee's vague estimate that there are 650,000 people in the UK who are «gender incongruent to some degree», this is still very much a niche issue affecting a minority of the population.

Partly as a result of the UK's relatively high population density, the top 15 UK airports account for more than one million of the 2.5 million people affected by aviation noise across the Europe Union (41 per cent of the total), based on the European standard measure of 55LDen.

These results indicate how crucial it is to update or adapt existing methods of data collection to identify persons with disabilities within affected populations.

And it is people from black and minority ethnic populations who are affected the most.

Increased traffic will affect the rural area, including a large population of Mennonite people.

No one knows the contamination levels of the 30,000 people in Newburgh, which has a largely minority and low - income population, because widespread blood testing has not been conducted, as it has in Hoosick Falls and another town affected by PFOA pollution, Petersburgh.

Even with such a low % of the population affected, taxes like this are hard to enforce and not so hard to legally avoid or reduce - for example, wealthy French people keeping wealth in neighbouring Belgium is common, as well as buying exempted assets, giving «temporary gifts» and other such techniques.

«Retired persons are a population of interest, particularly because one mechanism by which Internet use may affect depression is to counter the effects of isolation and loneliness, which are more common among older adults,» the authors stated.

And the scenario is peopled with some 730,000 agents — a synthetic population statistically identical to the real population of the affected area in factors such as age, sex, and occupation.

The model also incorporates data on how people typically move between home, work, school, and shopping; on sexual behavior (Zika can be spread through unprotected sex); and on factors that affect mosquito populations, such as seasonal temperature swings, rainfall, and breeding sites such as caches of old tires.

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe mental disorder that affects approximately one percent of the U.S. adult population and influences how a person thinks, feels, and behaves.

Approximately five per cent of the population suffers from irregular heartbeat, affecting around 12 per cent of people over 60.

Steve Kell, GP and co chair of the NHS Clinical Commissioners representative group, said: «CCGs are trying to develop a sense of joint responsibility for populations, so people in the hospital are thinking beyond their hospital walls to look at nursing home quality, and anything that affects our patients.

Not surprisingly, the area where the people with stroke were most affected was physical functioning, where 63 percent had scores considered meaningfully worse than those of the general population, with an average score of 59, where a score of 50 is considered the population average.

Commercial overfishing damages fish populations, marine habitats and ecosystems — consequences that also affect people who depend on the ocean for food and work.

A commonly diagnosed disorder that underwent diagnostic changes is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), which affects an estimated six percent of the population — or about 19 million people in the United States.

Endocrinologist Charles Wilkinson of the VA Puget Sound and the University of Washington and his colleagues were intrigued by studies that found pituary hormone deficiencies, which affect only 1 percent of the general population, in many people who had had a concussion.

However, because of population growth, the numbers of people affected increased substantially.

Sickle cell disease is particularly prevalent in African Americans and the sub-Saharan African population, affecting hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.

People with low incomes and racial / ethnic minority populations experience greater levels of stress than their more affluent, white counterparts, which can lead to significant disparities in both mental and physical health that ultimately affect life expectancy, according to a report from the American Psychological Association.

Professor Adam Balen, spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and Chair of the British Fertility Society (BFS), said, «Infertility affects 10 - 15 % of the population and more people are seeking fertility treatment.

As the global population ages, it is thought that the number of people affected will increase.

As the U.S. population ages, more people are developing PVD, a common condition that affects the blood vessels.

«Many of the people hardest hit by dyslexia are minority students and those from low - income families,» Shaywitz said, even though the condition affects all population segments and languages.

This work defines an element, often missing from health policy discussions, in improving outcomes for this important population and underscores the importance of social factors in affecting health outcomes both for people at risk of becoming infected with HIV and for those living with HIV or AIDS, said the researchers.

It is the most common liver disorder in developed countries — affecting approximately 20 % of the United States population and 25 - 30 % of people in the UK.

Although the first people affected by the epidemic were white gay men, today the virus is spreading fastest through the black population, and more women are infected than men.

The meta - analysis of findings from 15 studies by the European Eye Epidemiology Consortium found that around a quarter of the European population is short - sighted but it is nearly twice as common in younger people, with almost half (47 per cent) of the group aged between 25 and 29 years affected.

Professor Morgan added: «Alzheimer's disease affects around 520,000 people in the UK and this number is continually growing as the population ages.

In Finland alone, it affects around 1,000,000 people of the general population and has an occurrence of 90 % among obese individuals.

Intermittent claudication is the classic symptomatic form of peripheral artery disease (PAD), affecting approximately 20 to 40 million people worldwide and increasing rapidly with the aging world population.

In this case, celiac disease, affects a surprising number of people; it's about 1 percent of the population worldwide, and in the U.S. that translates to around 2 million people.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

The results showed that normal physical fitness, even up to 20 % below the population average, is sufficient to have a preventive effect on five of the eight risk factors affecting people with cardiovascular disease — abdominal circumference, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and excess weight.

«I divide the population of affected people in different ways,» he says.

«This approach can be used to better understand people, prevent diseases, and predict important trends, including views on policies that affect transgender populations or changes in health,» Krueger said.

As the population ages, with more people affected by Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative or age - related mental disorders, treatment costs are likely to go up sharply.

But this is the first large population study to look at how a new diagnosis of depression might affect people with coronary heart disease, according to researchers.

Dr. Eng stressed that BRCA mutations affect few people when considering the general population; between 5 and 10 percent of breast cancer is due to mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.

About 1 billion people — or one - sixth of the world's population — are affected by one or more neglected infectious diseases.