Sentences with phrase «rate than adult»

Often, they are more prone to illness and have a lower survival rate than adult cats.

Among youth — who use e-cigarettes at higher rates than adults do — there is substantial evidence that e-cigarette use increases the risk of transitioning to smoking conventional cigarettes.

Children have a higher heart rate than adults, which allows substances that are absorbed into the blood to permeate tissues faster.

Children with MS, however, have a higher relapse rate than adults with the disease so the researchers decided to analyse the potential impact of diet in this age group.

«The increased air pollution that typically accompanies heat waves can especially harm children, who have a higher risk of developing asthma, have lungs that are still developing and growing, and have higher exposure because they breathe at a higher rate than adults and spend more time outdoors engaging in vigorous physical activity.»

Children have a higher heart rate than adults, which allows substances that are absorbed into the blood to permeate tissues faster.

This is because the maternal antibodies have decreased, and young children, who are making antibodies for the first time, produce them at a much slower rate than adults.

Children have higher metabolic rates than adults and so are comfortable at lower temperatures.

About 75 % of college students have gambled in the last year, and 6 % of young adults have a gambling problem — a higher rate than adults — according to the National Center for Responsible Gaming.

Children are especially vulnerable to these impacts; breathing at a higher rate than adults, their lungs take in much more of the polluted air.

A 16 - year - old that is recently licensed, for example, will typically have much higher moped insurance rates than an adult that has several years of experience and no accident history.

Not exact matches

The world's most populous Muslim country and third - largest democracy with 238 million people, it has a per capita income more than double India's, a 90 % adult literacy rate and is energy independent.

But given the rise of news organizations aimed at younger adults, and the relatively high news consumption rates of young adults on social media and elsewhere, the reality may be more challenging for news organizations than that.

In a study issued this week (Aug. 11 - 15), Goldman Sachs Bank USA economists Eli Hackle and Hui Shan showed that the homeownership rate of young adults, ages 25 - 34, who were carrying more than $ 50,000 in student, was 8 percentage points lower than for college graduates with less than $ 50,000 in student debt.

Unfavorability ratings for the three major rental car brands associated with Enterprise Holdings Inc. — Enterprise Rent - A-Car, Alamo and National Car Rental — all more than doubled among surveyed adults after they learned about the companies ending discounts for NRA members.

A 2016 study from Go Banking Rates says 69 percent of U.S. adults have less than $ 1,000 in savings.

The national unemployment rate among young adults ages 18 to 29 was about 12.7 percent in August (over 4 % higher than the national average), according to nonprofit organization Generation Opportunity.

The rate of marriage has been steadily decreasing since the 1980s and in the last census the percentage of married adults was less than the percentage of single adults for the first time in American history.

Kerala's adult literacy rate is about twice that of the national average and its people live eleven years longer than the Indian average.

That is magazine for adults and it doesn't seem any different than a child appearing in a rated - R movie.

«This may be of particular concern in child and adolescent athletes where head injury rates are often higher than in adult athletes,» says the statement.

While the heart rate in pregnancy is faster than an adult's heart rate, the truth is that a normal fetal heart rate changes during the stages of pregnancy.

The rate of food allergies has more than doubled over the past decade, and there are now an estimated 5.9 million children in the United States with food allergies (along with another 2.3 million adults).

Because babies and toddlers grow at such a fast rate (just look at that growth chart on your wall), they need a significantly larger quantity of sleep than adults.

Infants younger than 3 months process alcohol at about half the rate of adults.

There is a big difference in child and adult obesity rates in France, with northern regions having higher rates of obesity than in the southern regions of France.

In fact, the ingestion rate in infants is more than twice that of adults.

In 2008, when voter turnout rates were at or around record highs, fewer than half (44.9 percent) of adults in households making less than $ 30,000 per year voted, according to Census Bureau data.

We have a skills gap that continues to grow; 41 % of New Yorkers have a high school diploma or less and the young adult unemployment rate is more than double the state rate at 10.5 % with New York City at a rate of 14 %.

Just six per cent — less than half the rate of British - born adults of working age.

It found that adults in Williamsburg, Bushwick, Bed - Stuy and East New York had higher rates of emergency room visits for asthma than other neighborhoods.

«Rather than harking back to an age when children started their adult life with qualifications that were seen as second rate, we want to look forward and work with teachers and schools to give them the freedom and tools needed to stretch pupils.»

Mortality rates among adults 18 - 64 have increased every year of Obamacare except 2012 and are now higher than at any time during the 2002 - 2010 period.

In HIV - infected adults, the combined rates of osteopenia and osteoporosis are as high as 90 percent in men and 60 percent in women, with related fractures 60 percent higher than in the general population.

With a three - year survival rate of 94.39 percent for all adult kidney recipients — above the 92.62 percent national average — UCSF has more patients on the kidney transplant waiting list than any other U.S. transplant center.

Meanwhile, rates of Type 2 diabetes in older adults are higher than other populations, as about 20 percent of Americans over the age of 65 suffer from the disease.

Dr. Anthony James, with the University of Oxford, and lead author of the paper, said of the study, «The finding that the disparity between US and English discharge rates for PBD is markedly greater than the disparity for child psychiatric discharge rates overall, and for adult rates for bipolar disorder, is potentially important.

Between 2003 and 2006, cardiovascular disease death rates were about 1.7 times higher among adults diagnosed with diabetes than those who were not, according to the CDC's 2014 National Diabetes Statistics Report.

Coyotes in urban settings have a far greater rate of survival than their rural counterparts: Between 60 and 70 percent of adults and pups survive each year in the city, whereas in the country — in the face of rampant hunting and trapping — they may have only a 15 to 30 percent chance of survival.

In addition, studies have shown that the five - year mortality rate for older adults with olfactory dysfunction is higher than are rates for adults with heart failure, diabetes, or cancer.

Researchers estimate that more than half of U.S. adults are vitamin D deficient, with the highest rates among African Americans and Hispanics.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

«Despite significant progress made in reducing tobacco use within the general population, individuals with mental illness smoke at rates approximately twice that of adults without mental disorders and comprise more than half of nicotine - dependent smokers,» according to background information in the article.

They were 13 times more likely to stay year - round and had an annual adult survival rate that was 11 percent higher than their salmon - deprived peers.

Young adults ages 18 to 25 are the group that has the highest level of tobacco use, reporting rates of smoking that are nearly 50 percent higher than either high school seniors or adults over age 26.

«In our large population - based study of more than 6,000 adults with CAP and almost 30,000 matched controls, we found that CAP patients have high rates of long - term morbidity and mortality compared to those who have never had CAP, irrespective of their age.»

A new study finds that young adults under 25, including high school grads and college students, are more likely to rate hookah and e-cigarettes as safer than cigarettes, when compared to 25 to 34 - year - olds.

Less than 1 percent of the entire population is addicted to gambling — a rate that has held steady for 40 years — even though surveys of American adults show that 72 percent have gambled at least once in the prior year.

Researchers conducted a unique linkage of more than 52,000 electronic health records (EHR) of children born from 1987 to 1995 and New Jersey driver licensing data to determine current rates and patterns of licensure among adolescents and young adults with ASD (without intellectual disability) and those without ASD.

The survey also indicates that while opioid overdose rates remain high among adults, teens are misusing opioid pain medications less frequently than a decade ago, and are at historic lows with some of the commonly used pain medications.