Sentences with phrase «percent higher infant»

Heath campaigners say that for decades, formula has consistently proven to be less healthy than breastfeeding - boosting the risk of diabetes, infections and other medical problems, and, when used exclusively, contributes to 21 percent higher infant mortality.

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Yet, college graduation rates lag, 70 percent of all Hispanic infants today are born to mothers with a high school degree or less, and Hispanics are over-represented among the poor in America.

BPA has been found in 93 percent of Americans tested, with the highest levels in the youngest infants.

Rates have declined more than 50 percent in the U.S. thanks to parents being advised to put sleeping infants in the supine position or on their backs, but rates are still disproportionately higher for non-Hispanic black and American Indian / Alaska Native infants, the CDC stated.

And with 64 percent of American mothers breastfeeding their infants — leaving some 36 percent that aren't, and who may be resorting to other methods, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics — you're likely not alone in suffering the high costs of baby formula.

According to the USDA, nearly 10 percent of WIC's spending on infant formula is attributable to higher - priced formulas that contain additives.

For high - risk infants, that reduction of risk is more than 80 percent.

Women with the highest levels were also 41 percent less likely to give birth to a live infant than women with the lowest blood levels.

For infants, consumption of aldicarb residue — mostly in potatoes, citrus and water — can reach 800 percent higher than the EPA's level of concern for health effects, while children between the ages of one and five can ingest 300 percent more than the level of concern, according to an Aug. 4 EPA memo.

Of the premature infants born with high weight for gestational age, 27.8 percent were obese by second grade.

The World Health Organization is working to increase the percentage of infants who receive at least three doses of pertussis vaccine to 90 percent or higher, especially in developing countries.

Late - term infants outperformed full - term infants in all three cognitive dimensions (higher average test scores in elementary and middle school, a 2.8 percent higher probability of being gifted, and a 3.1 percent reduced probability of poor cognitive outcomes) compared to full - term infants.

The researchers determined that more infants fed by secretor mothers had high levels of bifidobacteria — 60 percent of infants versus 37.5 percent at day 6 and 80 percent versus 50 percent at day 120 — and that infants who had more bifidobacteria had lower amounts of milk sugars left over and higher amounts of lactate in their feces.

The 2012 preterm birth rate among non-Hispanic black infants remains the highest of all the racial groups at 16.5 percent, down from 18.5 percent in 2006 and the lowest in more than 20 years.

By contrast, more than 25 percent of the high - birthweight infants met the criteria for obesity or overweight.

With nearly 10 percent of infants considered «high weight for length,» Trabulsi is interested in how to help all infants achieve a healthy weight as they enter childhood, starting with their intake during those first few months of life.

While certain patients, particularly infants, enjoy cure rates of 90 percent or better, the outlook is worse for high - risk patients, including those whose disease has spread widely.

Of all the infants with a decreased high frequency heart rate variability, 50 percent developed the disease.

But black people were 40 percent more likely to develop dementia if they'd been born in a state with high infant mortality.

However, a little reflection on the plight of the migrant farm workers (life expectancy 49, annual income for a family of four $ 2,400, poisoning from pesticide in 15 of every 100 workers, death from T.B. and other infectious diseases 260 percent higher than the national average, infant and maternal mortality 125 percent higher, and not even toilets or drinking water in the fields) makes one reluctant to head for the comfort of the car and home.

Newark's rate of infant mortality has consistently remained higher than the state average, with a rate of 7.5 percent compared to 4.8 percent in 2015.