This study represents one of the more comprehensive investigations of candidate explanatory factors, yet our analyses explained just over half of the gaps between the highest and lowest, and lowest and middle, SES
quintiles with regard to early reading and math scores, suggesting that many additional factors are involved.
This backtest of the total debt to equity ratio reveals that the third, fourth and fifth quintiles (
the quintiles with the highest debt to equity ratios) outperform the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index benchmark.
A 1997 study he co-authored in the Journal of the American Medical Association evaluated 65,000 women and found that the quintile of women who ate the most easily digestible and readily absorbed carbohydrates — that is, those with the highest glycemic index — were 47 percent more likely to acquire type 2 diabetes than those in
the quintile with the lowest average glycemic - index score.
A family qualifies for the middle
quintile with $ 167,001 in net worth, which is about half the price of a typical Canadian house.
Not exact matches
Account holders in the lowest checking account
quintile (those
with average balances of less than $ 536) increased their post-refund healthcare spending by a twentyfold factor larger than those
with accounts in the highest
quintile (balances over $ 3,577).
Recent studies indicate that while spending patterns shift in retirement, the overall trend in real dollars is down, and for the majority of retirees in the middle and upper income
quintiles, they may find themselves
with income that exceeds their spending.
With only the two upper
quintiles of American households seeing any kind of meaningful income growth, and the bottom three
quintiles still feeling the lingering effects of the recession, the holiday spending landscape has likely become bifurcated.
FMC has been involved in deals
with Dow and DuPont, while the IMS -
Quintiles deal happened about a year ago.
Contract researcher
Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc completed a $ 9 billion merger
with IMS Health Holdings Inc last year.
I'm in the Laggard
Quintile of the «longshot odds» Bell Curve; never had your balls / brains, and my adventures always seemed to end
with me flat on my back, staring up at the lights.
Meanwhile, nearly 90 percent of households in the top
quintile (income over about $ 105,000) got an average payroll tax cut of about $ 2,250, compared
with just 60 percent who would have gotten MWP credits averaging about $ 650.
Real after - tax income of middle - class families (considered the middle
quintile or middle one - fifth of families) in Canada grew by only seven per cent between 1976 and 2010 — or 0.2 per cent per year — according to the report,
with the average family income (after taxes and transfers) totalling $ 49,700 in 2010 for the middle - income families.
The cheapest
quintile had an average PE of 7.7
with an average ten - year forward real return of 11.4 % per annum, whereas the most expensive
quintile had an average PE of 23.4
with an average ten - year forward real return of only 3.8 % per annum.
Mutual fund screen included no - transaction fund fees
with expenses in the bottom 2
quintiles of funds only.
However, during periods of market turbulence, defined as the top
quintile of monthly changes in the VIX (corresponding
with about a 15 % or greater rise in the spot VIX Index), momentum underperformed quality by approximately 40 bps per month.
They define unusual pressure as the fifths (
quintiles) of stocks
with the most extreme buy / sell imbalances.
The following charts show the
quintile spreads two ratios within a universe of Large U.S. Stocks, stocks
with a market cap greater than average, from 1964 - 2015 [1].
Calculate gross trend momentum factor return as the difference in average (equal - weighted) actual returns between
quintiles / deciles
with the highest and lowest expected returns.
Two of the books considered here cite data showing that the
quintile of U.S. citizens
with the highest income receives nearly 50 percent of all income, while the lowest
quintile receives less than 4 percent.
Adjusted OR for cognitive impairment (MMSE score < 24) were 2 · 23 (95 % CI 1 · 24, 3 · 99) for total sugars and 2 · 28 (95 % CI 1 · 26, 4 · 14) for added sugars, comparing the highest
with lowest intake
quintiles.
Together, households in the 4th and 5th
quintile account for only 10 % of the total sample, yet consume 40 % of the total volume of alcohol,
with an average apparent consumption above the recommended level for low - risk of harm over the lifetime (i.e. no more than 2 standard drinks / day over the lifetime).
And these days, unless children from poor families get a college degree, their economic mobility is severely restricted: Young people who grow up in families in the lowest income
quintile (
with household income below about $ 21,500) and don't obtain a B.A. now have just a one in two chance of escaping that bottom economic bracket as adults.
After adjustment for maternal age, lone parent status, income
quintile, use of any versus no substances and parity, women in the home birth group were less likely to have epidural analgesia (odds ratio 0.20, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.14 — 0.27), be induced, have their labours augmented
with oxytocin or prostaglandins, or have an episiotomy.
With the bottom - top
quintiles paying an Effective Federal Tax Rate (EFTR) of 1 %, 6.8 %, 11.1 %, 15.1 %, and 23.2 % respectively.
The independent think tank stated: «Among those born in the 1970s, 87 % of those in the top income
quintile have received or expect to receive an inheritance, compared
with 58 % of those in the bottom income
quintile.»
Greater socioeconomic deprivation (5th versus 1st
quintile) was associated
with a 27 % increased risk.
Similarly, if replacing the lowest - ranked school in the survey
with a top -
quintile school, student test scores would improve by 0.39 of a standard deviation using a conventional VAM, and 0.53 of a standard deviation when using the MIT team's own VAM method.
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For this study, no screening was compared
with screening initiation
with colonoscopy according to ADR
quintiles (divided into five groups).
The authors then compared how hospital performance based upon same - hospital readmission rate compared
with performance under all - hospital readmissions, and found that 42 percent of hospitals were reclassified into a different
quintile of performance.
Adenoma detection rates, the proportion of a physician's screening colonoscopies that detect at least 1 histologically confirmed adenoma, ranged from 7.4 percent to 53 percent,
with the rates increasing from
quintile 1 to
quintile 5.
Presented
with support from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and
Quintiles.
The
quintile normalized data were analyzed to identify genes
with significantly up - or down - regulated expression (FDR p - value < 0.05)
with an arbitrary cutoff of at least a two-fold change.
Women
with the highest levels of dietary total antioxidant capacity
with no cardiovascular disease had a significantly 17 % lower total stroke risk in comparison to women in the lowest
quintile.
Age - adjusted geometric mean plasma concentrations of CRP, E-selectin, and sICAM - 1 trended toward significant decreases
with increasing
quintiles of magnesium intake (P for linear trend = 0.003 for CRP, 0.001 for E-selectin, and 0.03 for sICAM - 1)(Table 3).
Using cross-sectional data from the 1999 — 2000 NHANES, Ajani et al (13) reported that the OR of the likelihood of elevated CRP concentration is 0.49 (95 % CI: 0.37, 0.65) for the highest
quintile of total fiber intake (32 g / d) compared
with the lowest
quintile (5.1 g / d).
Geometric means of inflammatory markers across
quintiles of PHVO or non-HVO intake were computed
with analysis of covariance in 3 different models.
In contrast, higher consumption of non-HVOs was associated
with lower circulating concentrations of CRP (percentage difference between top and bottom
quintiles: − 23 %; P for trend: 0.05), TNF - α (− 29 %; P for trend: < 0.01), serum amyloid A (− 24 %; P for trend: < 0.01), and sICAM - 1 (− 19 %; P for trend: < 0.05).
Consumption of PHVOs was associated
with higher plasma concentrations of sICAM - 1, either before (percentage difference between top and bottom
quintiles in crude model: 28 %; P for trend: < 0.01) or after adjustment for confounders (percentage difference between top and bottom
quintiles in model 2: 22 %; P for trend: < 0.01)(Table 4).
Higher consumption of non-HVOs was associated
with lower circulating concentrations of CRP (percentage difference between top and bottom
quintiles: − 23 %; P for trend: 0.05), TNF - α (− 29 %; P for trend: < 0.01), and serum amyloid A (− 24 %; P for trend: < 0.01).
After adjustment for potential confounders, there was weak evidence for positive associations between maternal free sugar intake in pregnancy and childhood doctor - diagnosed asthma and childhood wheeze (OR comparing highest versus lowest
quintile 1.31, 95 % CI 0.98 — 1.75; per
quintile p - trend = 0.09 and 1.42, 95 % CI 1.05 — 1.92; per
quintile p - trend = 0.08, respectively), and stronger evidence for a positive association
with atopy at age 7 years (OR 1.38, 95 % CI 1.06 — 1.78; per
quintile p - trend = 0.006)(table 2).
In a linear mixed model adjusted for age, sex, education, participation in cognitive activities, physical activities, smoking, and seafood and alcohol consumption, consumption of green leafy vegetables was associated
with slower cognitive decline; the decline rate for those in the highest
quintile of intake (median 1.3 servings / d) was slower by β = 0.05 standardized units (p = 0.0001) or the equivalent of being 11 years younger in age.
Subjects
with a pattern score belonging to the highest
quintile obtained on average 37 · 2 % of their energy from fat and 37 · 6 % from carbohydrates and thus did not meet current dietary recommendations (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2002).
In fact, when the Feskanich group analyzed the Nurses» Health Study using only the data from the first FFQ, the association between the fifth and first
quintiles of retinol intake fell from a statistically significant (meaning consistent and unlikely to be due to chance) 89 percent increased risk to a non-statistically significant (meaning inconsistent,
with a high probability of being due to chance) 17 percent increased risk.9 This suggests that one one - week FFQ does not measure retinol intake
with sufficient accuracy to detect an association, and that, had the intake data more accurately estimated real intake of retinol, the Lim team might have found such an association.
Higher saturated fat intake was associated
with lower risk of stroke (
quintile 5 vs
quintile 1, HR 0 · 79 [95 % CI 0 · 64 — 0 · 98], ptrend = 0 · 0498).
Intake of total fat and each type of fat was associated
with lower risk of total mortality (
quintile 5 vs
quintile 1, total fat: HR 0 · 77 [95 % CI 0 · 67 — 0 · 87], ptrend < 0 · 0001; saturated fat, HR 0 · 86 [0 · 76 — 0 · 99], ptrend = 0 · 0088; monounsaturated fat: HR 0 · 81 [0 · 71 — 0 · 92], ptrend < 0 · 0001; and polyunsaturated fat: HR 0 · 80 [0 · 71 — 0 · 89], ptrend < 0 · 0001).
«Higher carbohydrate intake was associated
with an increased risk of total mortality (highest [
quintile 5] vs lowest
quintile [
quintile 1] category, HR 1 · 28 [95 % CI 1 · 12 — 1 · 46], ptrend = 0 · 0001) but not
with the risk of cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular disease mortality.
Breaking down each dietary group to
quintiles of exercise, you can see that within each dietary group, there is benefit
with more exercise.
Intakes of glutamic acid, leucine, and tyrosine from animal sources were associated
with lower a PWV of 0.3 — 0.4 m / s between extreme
quintiles of intake.
In relation to intakes of amino acids from animal sources, significant inverse associations were observed between glutamic acid, leucine, and tyrosine intakes and PWV,
with respective differences of − 0.3 ± 0.2 m / s (P - trend = 0.03), − 0.3 ± 0.2 m / s (P - trend = 0.02), and − 0.4 ± 0.2 m / s (P - trend = 0.02) between extreme
quintiles of intake.