Sentences with phrase «people in the general population»

For example, those with bipolar disorder experience addiction at six times the rate of people in the general population, while those with depression and anxiety disorders suffer at twice the rate.

The term «substantially limits» broadly means the impairment substantially limits a major life activity in comparison to most people in the general population.

«There's lots of people in the general population who should be on these drugs who aren't on them,» Dr. Hackam says.

For this reason, there are not many people in the general population who have experience germinating orchids to the flowering stage.

«We did not study people in the general population, but only adults who were diabetic and overweight,» White said.

In fact, this autoimmune signal temporarily emerges after myocardial infarctions in people in the general population, but normally the body is able to turn it off.

Studies have shown that neighborhood characteristics such as open space, mixed land use, condition / proximity / accessibility of infrastructure (e.g., parks, sidewalks, recreational facilities, transportation) influence physical activity and health among people in the general population.

Research has demonstrated that individuals with intellectual disability are vulnerable to depression and their risk may be greater than for people in the general population.

Do they do better or worse than care leavers and how do they compare with young people in the general population?

The court noted that for an impairment to «substantially limit» one or more of these major life activities, «the individual must be unable to perform, or be significantly limited in the ability to perform, an activity compared to an average person in the general population.»

That person depends on their Service Dog to be able to go out into public and do activities that most people in the general population have no trouble with.

About one to two percent of people in the general population are psychopaths (that percentage is higher in prisons, boardrooms, and undergrad economics classes).

«People in the general population who are taking omega - 3 fish oil supplements are taking them in the absence of scientific data that shows any benefit of the supplements in preventing heart attacks, stroke, heart failure or death for people who do not have a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease,» Siscovick said.

French researchers used clinical examinations and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies to determine whether retired professional rugby players experience more serious symptoms of cervical spine degeneration than people in the general population.

«Except for inhalation exposures that may have occurred on 9/11 and a few days afterwards, the ambient air concentration data suggest that persons in the general population were unlikely to suffer short - term or long - term adverse health effects caused by inhalation exposures,» EPA scientists wrote in their analysis published in 2007 [pdf].

But vets who were white, older, better educated and never married were more likely to take their own lives than were people in the general population.

Patients with mental illness are two and a half times more likely to be victims of homicide than people in the general population, according to a national study examining the characteristics of homicide victims across England and Wales, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal.

Unfortunately, people with fibromyalgia are more likely than people in the general population to have certain other conditions too.

The patients were followed for roughly 11 years, and compared with almost 217,000 people in the general population.

For example, one study compared the mortality of people who shopped in health food stores (both vegetarians and omnivores) to people in the general population.

And, this is even more important because people with celiac disease suffer from this situation, known as IgA deficiency, about 10 to 15 times more frequently than people in the general population.

They found that both vegetarians and omnivores in the health food store group lived longer than people in the general population.

It affects 1 in 1000 people in the general population and constitutes up to 4 % of the dialysis population.

Night eating syndrome may affect 1 or 2 out of 100 people in the general population.

While anyone may be at risk of suffering a choking injury, many nursing home residents are at greater risk of choking than people in the general population.

Most people in the general population have never heard the term «reactive attachment disorder» (RAD).

Individuals with antisocial personality disorder are more likely than people in the general population to die prematurely by violent means (e.g., suicide, accidents, homicides).