Sentences with phrase «percent of adults»

According to statistics, 25 percent of the adults in the country have Herpes and the numbers continue to rise with each passing year.

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Only 36 percent of adults have a bank account, compared with 69 percent in the Pacific and East Asian regions, according to the World Bank's Global Findex.

The prevalence of allergies is surging upward, with as many as 30 percent of adults and up to 40 percent of children having at least one allergy.

More than 90 percent of children and 89 percent of adults consume more sodium than is recommended in the new 2015 - 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

60 percent of adults don't process fructose well.

An estimated 14 percent to 20 percent of adults in the United States have GERD, according to a 2005 study in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

How to tell if you're dealing with insufficient sleep syndrome Nearly 30 percent of adults get less than six hours of sleep per night, on average (when most should be getting more like seven to nine).

In the U.S., 80 percent of adults consume caffeine every day — the average adult has an intake of 200 mg per day, the amount in two 5 - ounce cups of coffee or four sodas.»

According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, about 30 percent of adults experience some form of insomnia.

More than 70 percent of adults ages 20 and older are overweight, according to the 2015 health status of the nation report compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics.

Recent research shows about a quarter of children and more than 40 percent of adults in the United States consume artificial sweeteners daily.

Depression is the most common mental condition affecting an estimated 16 percent of adults.

Food allergy affects an estimated 6 to 8 percent of children under age 3 and up to 3 percent of adults.

However, newer research showed that the small intestines of up to 60 percent of adults in one study never completely healed on a gluten - free diet, especially in those who didn't adhere to the diet fully.

Around 2.4 percent of adults in the United States buy or consume foods labeled gluten - free, even though only about 16 percent of that number have celiac disease, according to a Mayo Clinic study.

So it's no surprise that upwards of 90 percent of adults in developed countries have excess body fat.

A 2016 UCLA study revealed that a shocking 46 percent of all adults in California either have prediabetes or suffer from undiagnosed type 2 diabetes — meaning that almost half of the adult population of the state has blood sugar that is too high.

According to the NHANES study, about 60 percent of adults who did not meet the recommended amount of protein daily reported skipping at least one meal.

In the U.S. nearly 60 percent of adults drink coffee each morning, and 78 percent drink it at least occasionally.2 On the average, coffee drinkers consume about two cups a day.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, less than three percent of adults over 55 get the mental health support they need with age.

Estimates vary but they say that as much as 20 percent of adults in the United States have reported symptoms that are synonymous with IBS.

Caffeine is considered the most commonly used psychoactive drug in the world, with approximately 90 percent of adults consuming it on a daily basis, mostly by drining coffee, soda and tea.

Food allergies are known to affect quite a large number of our population, with estimates that about three percent of adults and up to eight percent of our children are affected.

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This study of 2010 data from 90 countries found that 31 percent of adults worldwide (1.39 billion) had high blood pressure, and that about 75 percent of them were in low - and middle - income countries.

«Epstein - Barr virus infects over 90 percent of adults, and the infection lasts for a lifetime,» said study lead author Dr. John Harley.

«The trends of skipping breakfast by an estimated 20 percent to 30 percent of adults mirrors the increase in obesity and the accompanying cardio - metabolic derangements including hardening of arteries noted in this study,» Baliga explained.

We're designed to move, yet barely 20 percent of adults get the recommended minimum of 30 minutes a day of physical activity, and fewer than half of adults get enough activity to achieve any meaningful health benefits.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends that all adults get a pertussis booster shot to strengthen their immunity, yet only 2 percent of adults have had their shots updated.

Women represent nearly 60 percent of adults with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, the researchers reported.

Experts estimate that 80 - 95 + % percent of adults are deficient in magnesium, and this can have dire consequences since the body uses magnesium in the processes that regulate heart health, mental health, blood pressure, and during pregnancy.

Transgender individuals were more likely to identify as male - to - female (0.28 percent of adults surveyed) than female - to - male (0.16 percent), the study found.

Triclosan, a chemical found in the majority of anti-bacterial hand and dish soaps, was picked up in the nasal passages of 41 percent of the adults sampled by researchers at the University of Michigan.

Only about 13 percent of adults get the recommended amount of fruit per day (1 1/2 to 2 cups), and fewer than 9 percent get their daily veggie dose (2 to 3 cups).

Fibromyalgia affects roughly 2 to 4 percent of adults worldwide.

Approximately 65 percent of adults are lactose intolerant.

Some estimate that as many as 10 percent of adults have hypothyroidism, which is more common in women and is most often diagnosed in the 40s and 50s.

An estimated 68 percent of adults in the United States are either overweight or obese, yet medicine doesn't have much to offer in the way of help; there are very few effective nonsurgical weight - loss therapies.

That being said, the World Health Organization says that up to four percent of adults have some form of dairy allergy, and the number is the same for those sensitive to dairy and milk.

Researchers find about 50 to 75 percent of adults allergic to birch tree pollen get itchy after eating certain fruit or vegetables.

Back in 1995, about 4.5 percent of adults in the U.S. had been diagnosed with diabetes.

It can only be treated by replacing the valve through heart surgery and is the third leading cause of heart disease, affecting three percent of adults over the age of 75.

About 10.7 percent of U.S. children and 3 percent of adults are estimated to be affected.

She arrived in the California, the land of food plenty, only to discover that «47 percent of adults in Ventura County live in food insecure households.»

«Thirty to 40 percent of adults in this country are obese,» agreed cardiologist Joseph Wu, MD, PhD, the paper's senior author.

Skeletal fragility affects 40 - to - 50 percent of adults with PKU and 33 percent of children with the disease.

It affects an estimated six percent of children and about two percent of adults.

Sixty - eight percent of the adults who took prescription drugs also used over-the-counter medications or dietary supplements.

However, the 2017 ACC / AHA guideline would classify an additional 13.7 percent of all adults as having hypertension — 31 million additional people in the United States as having hypertension, and around 2.4 million additional Australians.