Sentences with phrase «percent of adolescent»

Twenty percent of adolescent girls with severe menorrhagia have a blood coagulation problem.

35 to 57 percent of adolescent girls engage in crash dieting, fasting, self - induced vomiting, diet pills, or laxatives.

The disease, which affects about 0.5 to 0.7 percent of adolescent girls, has one of the highest suicide rates of any psychiatric disorder.

Boston Children's Hospital researchers found 17.9 percent of adolescent boys were extremely concerned about their weight and physique.

We are relieved to learn that 81 percent of adolescents can pick out the Golden Rule from among multiple options; we are dismayed to think of the 19 percent who have no idea what it is.

Other research suggests that approximately 13 to 18 percent of adolescents engage in physically self - injurious behaviors such as cutting during their lifetimes.

Research shows that 11 percent of adolescents are diagnosed with a depressive disorder by age 18.

Though depression is less common among adolescents than adults, 11 percent of adolescents are diagnosed with a depressive disorder by age 18, according to the adolescent supplement of the National Comorbidity Survey, which collected data on teens in two sample groups between 2001 and 2004.

Owens told parents Tuesday night that 80 percent of adolescents get less than the nine hours of recommended sleep.

More than 1 million children ages 6 to 12 have had a depressive episode and between 20 and 30 percent of adolescents have a major depressive episode before reaching adulthood.

American children are ingesting too much fluoride, and about 40 percent of adolescents are now showing this in the form of dental fluorosis — pitting and staining of the teeth.

In a nationwide survey in 2015, 40 percent of adolescents who identified as one of these sexual minorities or said they were unsure of their orientation reported seriously considering suicide.

Dahl explains, «Eighty percent of adolescents don't do wild and crazy things.

So are 13 percent of elementary - school kids and 14 percent of adolescents.

Seven percent of the adolescents experience daily knee pain in the front of the knee,» says physiotherapist and PhD Michael Skovdal Rathleff from Aarhus University, and continues:

Among this age group, 72 percent reported regularly getting seven - plus hours of sleep per night in 1991; by 2012, in the same age group, 63 percent of adolescents reported regularly receiving seven or more hours of sleep per night.

And 81 percent of adolescents had not only had full childhood vaccinations, but also a booster shot.

If flavors were not available, 77.8 percent of adolescents and 73.5 percent of young adults who used e-cigarettes said they would not use them.

Yet only seven percent of adolescents with lower back pain will seek medical care.

At the end of the Johns Hopkins program, more than 70 percent of adult patients reached a normal BMI of 19 or higher, and 80 percent of adolescents were within 5 pounds of their target weight.

Reported by up to 30 percent of adolescents with obesity, loss of control eating typically takes one of two forms — either eating objectively large amounts of food or eating continuously.

«With approximately 10 percent of adolescents in the U.S. suffering from severe obesity, bariatric surgery is increasingly being recommended as an effective long - term treatment,» said Dr. Inge.

At the same time, 25 percent of all adolescents — including 30 percent of adolescent girls — are experiencing anxiety disorders.

Using the 1999 National Survey of American Families, Brown found that only 1.5 percent of all children lived with two cohabiting parents at the time of the survey.17 Similarly, an analysis of the 1995 Adolescent Health Study (Add Health) revealed that less than one - half of 1 percent of adolescents aged sixteen to eighteen had spent their entire childhoods living with two continuously cohabiting biological parents.18

Studies have found that more than 50 percent of adolescents who committed suicide had a mood disorder at the time.

Seventy percent of adolescents who reported engaging in oral sex had never used a barrier to protect themselves from STDs during oral sex.

As many as 13 — 20 percent of adolescents in the U.S. and other developed countries experience minor or major depressive episodes each year.

Forty - seven percent of adolescents had heard random gunshots in the past six months, 31 percent had family members who used drugs or alcohol, and 19 percent had had unwanted sexual experiences.

As many as 13 — 20 percent of adolescents in the U.S. and other developed countries experience minor or major depressive episodes each year, according to Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW).

Forty percent of adolescents were born in the United States, whereas the remainder were born in their families» countries of origin.

Eighteen percent of adolescents were reportedly from households with incomes less than $ 15,000.

Not exact matches

According to findings of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, more than half of those who took virginity pledges went on to have sex within three years; 88 percent of them had sex before marriage.

Among adolescents and young adults, 67.2 percent and 70.3 percent, respectively, reported that they never watched religious programs compared to 25.7 % of older adults who said they never watched.

A study of almost 1,300 East Coast hospitals published Tuesday in the September issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine found that 94 percent distributed free samples of infant formula to new mothers, despite opposition from a number of medical and public health organizations.

«Overweight and obese adolescents have a 70 percent chance of becoming obese adults,» he says.

They found that adolescents averaged 39 minutes per day of moderate - to - vigorous physical activity across all locations, which placed them among the estimated 92 percent of U.S. youths who don't get the 60 minutes of daily exercise recommended for healthy development and obesity prevention.

In fact, a study published in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine reported that infants who sleep under a ceiling fan reduce their risk of SIDS by as much as 72... MORE percent!

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder occurs in an estimated 3 to 5 percent of school - age children, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

The rate of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is reduced by over a third in breastfed babies, and there is a 15 percent to 30 percent reduction in adolescent and adult obesity in breastfed vs. non-breastfed infants.

According to an August 2005 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the incidence of cavities in children ages two to five increased 15.2 percent from 1988 - 1994 to 1999 - 2002, the only child and adolescent age group to exhibit increased tooth decay.

The statistics are scary: about 17 percent of children and adolescents, age 2 - 19, are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Although a 50 percent cut in funding from New York State prompted Ulster County to shift administration of mental health clinics to a privately operated agency, the county still has mental health resources available for families and adolescents, said county Health Commissioner Dr. Carol Smith.

For rates of past - year depressed mood and suicidality, over one quarter of U.S. adolescents reported depressed mood, almost 20 percent experienced serious suicidal thoughts, and 8 percent had attempted suicide.

While levels of condom use with casual partners and the proportion of people reporting multiple sexual partners remained largely unchanged, the proportion of adolescents ages 15 to 19 who reported never having sex rose from 30 percent in 1999 to 55 percent in 2016.

The percentage of adolescents reporting to have sexual experience in this study was relatively low — up to 5.8 percent of tenth graders and 11.4 percent of twelfth graders.

Despite Tdap coverage of more than 90 percent in adolescents, they had the highest incidence of pertussis of any age group in 2014.

«The thing that surprised me is that only about 50 percent of young adults had continuous insurance for a full year at a time,» commented Carol Ford, M.D., FSAHM, president of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and division chief of adolescent medicine at the Children's Hospital of PhiAdolescent Health and Medicine and division chief of adolescent medicine at the Children's Hospital of Phiadolescent medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Because of the new criteria, between Rome III and Rome IV, the prevalence of IBS in children / adolescents has increased from 2.8 percent to 5 percent.

Until a better vaccine is available, the CDC urges adolescents and adults to get a one - time booster shot, but as of 2010, only 8 percent of American adults had done so.

Neuroscientist Marise B. Parent of Georgia State University and her colleagues fed 11 adolescent rats a diet in which fructose supplied 60 percent of the calories.