Sentences with phrase «percent less risk»

The 60/40 portfolio gave us 38 percent less risk than the S&P 500.

They found that women who took 2 or more tablets per week of over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs at standard doses for 5 to 9 years, had 21 percent less risk of breast cancer.

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.

Not exact matches

He found that «men who reported more than 23 hours a week of sedentary activity had a 64 percent greater risk of dying from heart disease than those who reported less than 11 hours a week of sedentary activity,» according to NPR.

Regardless of your age, if you are extremely risk averse and can not tolerate drops in your portfolio value, you may want a greater percentage in fixed / bond assets and a lesser percent in stocks.

There is no cutting, and risk of infertility is less than 1 percent,» Letts wrote.

A 2007 study found that children under the age of two are 75 percent less likely to suffer severe injury or death if they are in a rear - facing seat; the risk of injury or death goes up dramatically in a front - facing seat, according to the Injury Prevention journal.

If you've had one c - section with the typical low - transverse uterine incision and are considered a good candidate for VBAC, most studies estimate the risk of rupture during labor to be less than one percent.

Additionally, the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study concluded that consumers who eat fast food two or more times a week had a one - hundred percent increase in their insulin resistance compared to consumers who ate at fast food establishments less than once a week.

Researchers found that babies at high risk of developing a peanut allergy who were fed the equivalent of about 4 heaping teaspoons of peanut butter each week, starting at the age of 4 to 11 months, were about 80 percent less likely to develop an allergy to the legume by age 5 than similar kids who avoided peanuts.

One study found that babies born after epidurals were less likely to be fully breastfed on hospital discharge; this was an especial risk for epidural mothers whose babies did not feed in the first hour after birth.112 A Finnish survey records that 67 percent of women who had labored with an epidural reported partial or full formula - feeding in the first 12 weeks compared to 29 percent of nonepidural mothers; epidural mothers were also more likely to report having «not enough milk.»

Properly fitted helmets can reduce the risk of head injuries by at least 45 percent — yet less than half of children ages 14 and under usually wear a bike helmet.

A 2009 study conducted as part of Partners for Child Passenger Safety found that kids between 4 and 8 were 45 percent less likely to sustain moderate to serious injuries in crashes when they were restrained in high - back or backless booster seats to lap - and - shoulder seat belts alone — and this reduction in injury risk went up to 67 percent for kids in post-1998 car models.

«Absolute risk of death is low in all settings — less than half of a percent.

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.

An average of at least 20g of nut consumption was also associated with a reduced risk of dying from respiratory disease by about a half, and diabetes by nearly 40 percent, although the researchers note that there is less data about these diseases in relation to nut consumption.

Daily doses of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood on a mobile device equals 7.5 minutes less sleep and a 50 percent greater risk of expressive language delay for your toddler, right?

So for the average flyer, the increased risk is far less than 0.01 percent.

People with the rare AB blood type, present in less than 10 percent of the population, have a higher than usual risk of cognitive problems as they age.

Less than one percent of the world's water is liquid fresh water, and scientific studies suggest that a majority of U.S. and global fresh water is now at risk because of increasing consumption, evaporation and pollution.

They found patients with a BSA of two percent or less had a relative risk of 1.21 for developing diabetes, meaning their risk is 21 percent higher than those without psoriasis.

Walking, which was the most common form of physical activity reported among these women, was associated with lower risk; walking 2 hours per week or more was associated with a 15 percent lower risk of hearing loss, compared with walking less than one hour per week.

Using drugs to lower systolic blood pressure to less than 120 millimeters of mercury cut people's risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular woes by 25 percent, researchers report November 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

For women with waist circumference 80 - 88 cm, the relative risk for hearing loss was 11 percent higher and with waist circumference greater than 88 cm the relative risk was 27 percent higher when compared with women with waist circumference less than 71 cm.

Women using hormone replacement therapy were also 20 percent more likely to have a coronary calcium score of zero (the lowest possible score, indicating a low likelihood of heart attack) and 36 percent less likely to have a coronary calcium score above 399 (indicative of severe atherosclerosis and high heart attack risk).

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.

After accounting for age, coronary calcium score and cardiovascular risk factors including diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, women using hormone replacement therapy were overall 30 percent less likely to die than those not on hormone therapy.

The risk of riding with an impaired driver was much higher for peer drivers than for older adult drivers (21 percent vs. 2.4 percent for marijuana, 17 percent vs. 4 percent for alcohol, and 5.4 percent vs. less than 1 percent for illicit drugs).

Women with a waist circumference of 37 inches or greater had about an 80 percent higher mortality risk than women with a waist circumference of 27 inches or less, and this translated to about a five - year lower life expectancy after age 40.

The risk of MS as an adult was 90 percent higher in children of mothers who were vitamin - D deficient (25 (OH) D levels less than 12.02 ng / mL) compared with the children of mothers who were not vitamin D deficient, according to the results.

The risk of scientific misconduct has generally been considered to be less than 1 percent, but the size of the disbursements and the added reporting requirements (namely, quarterly status reports and updates on job creation) could tempt researchers to cut corners or even fake aspects of applications.

They found that as the number of fine particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter increased, so, too, did the risk of dying: each jump of 10 micrograms per cubic meter corresponded to a 11 to 17 percent increase in the risk of dying from any cause.

Using this, the team found that three - year survival rates for the best matched / lowest risk donor and recipient pairs could be greater than 87 percent and less than 74 percent for the worst - matched / highest - risk group.

If they're younger than 60, the risk is even less — 87 percent.

Compared with men who spent less than 11 minutes in the sauna, the risk of SCD was 7 percent lower for sauna sessions of 11 to 19 minutes and 52 percent less for sessions lasting more than 19 minutes.

They found that participants who consumed one or more sugar - sweetened cola servings per day had a 23 percent higher risk of developing kidney stones compared with those participants consuming less than one serving per week.

«Linking these findings with other results from the same population suggests that persons living in a more polluted part of town may have a 2 percent higher risk of stroke as compared to people in a less polluted part of the same metropolitan area,» Adar said.

After they statistically accounted for smoking, family history, and other factors known to increase high blood pressure risk, the researchers found that women who adhered to a healthy diet were 20 percent less likely to develop high blood pressure than those who did not.

This represented a significant reduction in the risk, i.e. 65 percent less, covering other fractures too.

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.

Significant anti-tumor activity was observed as well: nearly 70 percent had a near complete or complete response within three months post treatment, which compares favorably with the expected responses (less than 40 percent) in patients without high - risk disease following an ASCT.

That risk was more than double in women and African Americans, but less than 50 percent for men and whites, Soliman said.

In contrast, Rank said, the risk of poverty for an individual between the ages of 25 - 29, who is nonwhite, not married, and with an education of high school or less, is «a whopping 72 percent.»

Using data from the blood assays, the researchers determined that patients with peak troponin T levels less than 5 ng / L had only a 0.1 percent risk of death within 30 days.

The raw data showed that taking COX - 2 inhibitors correlated with a 9 percent higher risk of gastrointestinal bleeds, a potentially life - threatening side effect — a surprise, since a raft of clinical studies had previously shown that those drugs were less likely to cause gi bleeds.

You reduce the risk by emitting less and that's costing you about 1 percent of GDP.

If the risks turn out to be less than we thought, we spent 1 percent of GDP, we have cleaner lives and save biodiversity.

The adjusted absolute risk of mortality among patients with SAB with high - vancomycin MIC (≥ 1.5 mg / L [less susceptible]; n = 2,740 patients; mortality, 26.8 percent) was not statistically different from patients with SAB with low - vancomycin MIC (< 1.5 mg / L; [more susceptible] n = 5,551 patients; mortality, 25.8 percent).

By evaluating aspirin guidelines by the American Heart Association, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, and other organizations, researchers determined aspirin use to be inappropriate in patients with a 10 year cardiovascular disease risk of less than 6 percent.

The IPERGAY researchers found that men who have sex with men and transgender women at high risk for HIV infection who took PrEP around the time of sexual activity were 86 percent less likely to acquire HIV than similar individuals who took a placebo.