Sentences with phrase «percent of children»

Contrary to expectation, 40 percent of the children did not share any strains with their mothers.

He found that legal paternity is established in the hospital for 69.7 percent of children born to unmarried mothers.

«From recent studies of the general population, we know that approximately 50 percent of children lose ideal cardiovascular health by adolescence because they are overweight or obese.

Eczema (atopic dermatitis) affects about 10 percent of children and adults in the United States.

It is difficult to diagnose and, without treatment, 25 percent of children with KD develop coronary artery aneurysms — balloon - like bulges of heart vessels — that may eventually result in heart attacks, congestive heart failure or sudden death.

In a small group of patients, short stature was associated with eczema only when there also was an indicator of insufficient sleep (zero to three nights of sufficient sleep per week), with 1.3 percent of children with eczema having short stature and getting only as many as three nights of sufficient sleep per week.

Both studies back earlier «field tests» of the DSM - 5 criteria, which likewise suggested that the new category of SCD would apply to around 10 percent of children who would have previously received a diagnosis of autism.

Forty percent of the children's fatal injuries were self - inflicted, including separate incidents in which a five - year - old boy and a two - year - old boy, using.

The study found that about 30 percent of the children observed maintained relatively higher cortisol levels over the three years, 40 percent of the children maintained lower cortisol levels, and the remainder had moderate levels.

Beans Iron deficiency is a huge problem in the central African countries of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where in some provinces up to 50 percent of children are anemic.

In 2014 the same organization determined that 89 percent of adults and 75 percent of children in the U.S. have at least one electronic device in their bedroom, with a significant number of them sending or answering texts after they had initially fallen asleep.

20 percent of children were improperly restrained or unrestrained, and 13 percent were inappropriately seated in the front.

Approximately 30 percent of children with ASD overall remain minimally verbal even after years of intervention.

Overall, about 16 percent of children involved in fatal wrecks died — 2,885 children total over the four - year review period from 2010 to 2014.

But as lethal as the flu can be, the CDC reports that nearly 60 percent of adults and 43 percent of children were not vaccinated in the most recent reporting year.

Latino children in non-immigrant families demonstrated the largest gains over time, with 63 percent of children ages 5 - 10 years receiving preventive dental care in 2010 compared to 35 percent in 2005.

52 percent of children involved in fatal crashes lived in the South; 21 percent in the West, 19 percent in the Midwest, and 7.5 percent in the Northeast.

Analyzing the latest available U.S. Census data, NCCP researchers find that 44 percent of children under age 18 lived in low - income families in 2013, and 22 percent lived in poor families.

Ten percent of children were still feeling uneasy three years later.

In California, 24 percent of all children complete elementary school without ever having seen a dentist.

In clinical trials that June's team initially launched in 2010, over 80 percent of children with recalcitrant ALL went into remission.

Forty - seven percent of all children under 3 years old live in low - income families, compared to 41 percent of children age 12 through 17 years.

Forty - eight percent of children in the South live in low - income families, compared to 37 percent in the Northeast.

And there is considerable work still to be done in spreading evidence - based programs: Only 3 percent of children with problems ranging from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to disruptive behavior to suicidality receive evidence - based services, he said, partly because scientifically valid programs often have a high price tag.

Thus, only 12 percent of children in immigrant families were non-citizens.

Without intervention, 25 percent of children born to infected mothers contract HIV; with treatment, transmission plummets to 3 percent.

Three percent of the adults and 21 percent of the children were found to have had a recent mycoplasma infection — which was higher than in healthy control individuals.

Currently about 1.5 percent of children born in the U.S. every year are diagnosed with an ASD, typically in early childhood.

«In our study, though previous medical histories of the subjects were unknown, 51.3 percent of the children with these infections presented in the outpatient or ambulatory setting.»

By 2003, when the national child poverty rate had fallen to 17.6 percent, approximately 54 percent of children of immigrants lived in families with incomes under twice the federal poverty level, compared to 36 percent of children of native - born parents.

Thirty - six percent of children of two bipolar parents had major depression, with two - thirds of those also being bipolar.

Less than 2 percent of children in the United States have lead levels that exceed the amount that the CDC considers safe.

Across 27 households in Woodland, Calif., 75 percent of children living in cul - de-sacs reported being highly active outdoors, versus 55 percent of those residing on through streets.

About 17 percent of children 7 years old and younger were in car safety seats before new laws expanded age requirements.

About 20 percent of children in the United States have difficulty learning to read, and educators have devised a variety of interventions to try to help them.

The STAT3 protein - it stands for «signal transducer and activator of transcription 3» - is a suspected factor in the relapse of nearly 40 percent of children with AML.

During the year's follow - up, over 80 percent of the children whose parents received the training would not have been selected for the intervention programme for their disruptive behaviour.

An estimated five to eight percent of all children suffer from food allergies.

Past studies have shown that externalizing behaviors — or problem behaviors that are directed toward the external environment, such as fighting, stealing, destroying property, or refusing to follow rules — affect 6 to 7 percent of children in industrialized western societies, a rate that increases with age.

In absolute numbers this translates to 2 percent of children whose mothers had clinical RA and 3 percent of children whose mothers had preclinical RA at the time of birth who later developed epilepsy.

Recent studies have confirmed that it offers some antiseizure benefits, although 90 percent of children in one study found the diet so unpalatable that they eventually dropped it.

Six percent of children in rural areas had a food allergy, compared with 10 percent of kids in urban centers.

Eighty - one percent of the children who died had suffered seizures, a sign of acute lead poisoning.

By second grade, the last grade examined, 23.1 percent of children born with high birthweight were obese.

In developed countries, about 90 percent of children have at least one episode before school age, usually between the ages of six months and four years.

In two Nigerian communities, 118 children under the age of 5 died in a single year — 25 percent of the children in that age group.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 8 percent of children in the United States currently have asthma, a chronic disease that intermittently inflames and narrows the airways.

More than 25 percent of children's daily calories may come from snacks.

«We estimated that vaccine protection wanes over time, but slowly, with about 85 percent of children still protected 10 years after vaccination,» said Domenech de Cellès.

In 1998, 36 percent of children lived in moderate - low, moderate - high and high - poverty neighborhoods.