Sentences with phrase «percent less chance»

A new study has found that people who adhere closely to the official dietary guidelines of Japan have a 15 percent less chance of dying over a 15 - year period, compared to people who do not follow the guidelines.
Results Study participants who ate spicy foods once or twice a week had 10 percent less chance of dying than study participants who ate spicy foods less frequently.
After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.
Reduced risk of interventions — studies have found that doula assisted births have 50 percent less chance of caesarean section, 40 percent less risk of a forceps delivery and 60 percent reduction in the use of epidural pain medication.
According to a report by the Journal of Family Psychology, couples who underwent premarital counseling had 30 percent lesser chances of a divorce in the next 5 years as compared to those who did not.
, couples who underwent premarital counseling had 30 percent lesser chances of a divorce in the next 5 years as compared to those who did not.

Not exact matches

The chance the chosen flip is a heads - equal to the percentage of heads in the bucket - we claim is less than 50 percent.
That means you have less than a 1 percent chance of becoming a Chick - fil - A franchisee.
Traders on the fed funds futures market now are indicating a less than 50 percent chance that the central bank will move three times this year.
Your chances of raising money from any given VC fund are less than 0.5 percent.
A new study shows that jobs that are both high - demanding and give employees less control are associated with a 15.4 percent increased chance of death.
When comparing highly - demanding jobs, those that also gave employees less control were associated with a 15.4 percent increased chance of death.
Let's say you do want to give (or hint strongly that you'd like to receive) a monetary gift, but not cash — something more interesting, less likely to be spent idly, and with a chance of growing at more than zero - point - something percent.
Under current policies, the IEA puts the chances of holding global temperature increases to less than 2 degrees — the threshold at which global warming tips us into the danger zone — at a scant 2 percent.
Of course, the practical difference can not be ignored: Hindus are an overwhelming majority closely associated with political, economic and social power while Christians are less than 3 percent of the population without any realistic chance of economic and political influence at a national level.
«Chances of cancer in someone your age and health are less than 1 percent,» the surgeon said just before performing the procedure.
In the ALDS this year, the Royals were down to less than a 2 percent chance of winning the must - win Game 4.
The Bulldogs would have a 59 percent chance of beating Georgia or an 84 percent chance of beating Missouri in Atlanta, but their odds of winning out are less than one - in - three already.
FanGraphs has them at less than a one - percent chance of making the National League Division Series, and just over a one - percent chance of making the Wild Card Game.
The Nationals are projected with a 100 - percent chance to win the National League East per FanGraphs, with Baseball Prospectus slightly less optimistic, at 99.9 percent.
Houston went into the 2015 season with less than a 10 percent chance of making the divisional round, according to BP, and over the first 10 days of 2015, the Astros went 4 — 5, keeping their playoff odds more or less level.
Even after dominating possession, no less than 70 percent during the game, Gunners only created two clear cut chances.
When these conditions are met, there is less than a 2 percent chance of becoming pregnant.
When all three of these conditions exist, she has less than a two percent chance of becoming pregnant.
If there is no known cause, some treatment may work, but you still have a 50 percent chance or less of having a miscarriage.
In fact, as noted in DiNapoli's own actuarial study, there's a less than 50 - 50 chance New York state's pension investments will make 7 percent annually over the next 30 years.
But since he received less than 50 percent of the vote in the nine candidate field, there is a fair chance at least one of his opponents from today's special will run against him in the Democratic primary this September.
Following the Lancet publication in 2012, Wright and colleagues recalculated the numbers and did not find a mortality benefit among people who had less than a 20 percent chance of having a heart attack in the next five years, based on established prediction measures.
They identified 56 hits that inhibited Ebola virus activity by more than 70 percent, while showing less than a 20 percent chance of being toxic to cells.
«I would now give it less than a 1 percent chance of being a transiting planet.
One study found that 9/11 survivors who earned less than $ 25,000 a year had a 49 percent chance of having PTSD, whereas those who made more than $ 100,000 per annum had only a 6 percent risk.
PASADENA, Calif. — The forecast on Pluto is clear with less than a 1 percent chance of clouds.
The study demonstrated that a group of trial participants with low 21 - gene recurrence score (Oncotype DX ® Recurrence Score ®) results of 10 or less who received hormonal therapy alone without chemotherapy had less than a one percent chance of distant recurrence at five years.
Their models showed that if you visited any star with a planet orbiting from the same distance as Earth down to one tenth that, there is about a 38 percent chance (and likely less) that you would run into a planet and moon system similar to Jupiter's four Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), with similar ratios of moon to planetary diameters and orbital to planetary radii.
Her chances of giving birth will then rocket from less than 1 percent to 50 percent.
There is a small chance — Hawking himself puts the probability at less than 1 percent — that the Large Hadron Collider, the enormous new particle accelerator near Geneva, might detect miniature black holes.
The wastewater plants had a low removal rate (less than 25 percent chance of removing 75 percent or more) for 11 of the 42 chemicals.
There's only a 5 percent chance of limiting warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, according to a forecast drawn from a statistical analysis of 150 countries» population and economic growth.
Issued Monday afternoon, the forecast gives less than a 10 percent chance that weather problems will delay the launch further.
This planet would most likely orbit Alpha Centauri B with an orbital period of 20.4 days or less, with only a 5 percent chance of it having a longer orbit.
What's more, the chance of getting breast cancer by age 33, even with a BRCA mutation, is less than 3 percent.
«In fact, depending on several factors, there's actually less than a 50 percent chance that the first cycle will give your ILO a baby, she writes.
It can be inserted by a doctor up to five days after unprotected sex, and there's less than a 1 percent chance of pregnancy.
More than 50 percent of Americans are slow metabolizers of caffeine, so there's a good chance you'll sleep better and feel less anxious and revved up if you stop for twenty - one days.
Among study participants who ate spicy foods 3 times a week or more often, the chance of death was 15 percent less.
Now I had a less than 10 percent chance of living 5 years.
According to a recent Pew Foundation report, (Figure 1), if your household income is $ 30k / year or less, (which applies for 31 percent of Americans), your chance of having broadband Internet at home drops to 40 percent.
A freshman entering the district today has less than a 50 percent chance of graduating four years from now, according to one study, and the odds are even worse for Latinos.
In the frontal test, one star means a 46 percent or greater chance of serious injury, and a five - star rating means 10 percent or less, NHTSA said.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a five - star rating in a side impact means a 5 percent or less chance of serious injury.
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