Sentences with phrase «rate than girls»

It is now estimated that one in sixty - eight children will be diagnosed with autism, with boys affected at a much higher rate than girls.

Boys are suspended at higher rates than girls, and whites are suspended at higher rates than Asians.

Not exact matches

While this is the case for both genders and most age groups — the exception is people older than 75 — the rate of increase is particularly alarming for girls between the ages of 10 and 14.

Obesity rates for women aged ≥ 20 y have reached 30 %, which is more than quadruple the obesity rates in girls (7 %).

The study found that concussions were the most common injury, accounting for three in ten of all cheerleading injuries (followed by ligament sprains, muscle strains and fractures), but that concussion rates were significantly lower in cheerleading (2.2 per 10,000 athlete - exposures) than all other high school sports combined (3.8 per 10,000 exposures) and all other girls» sports combined (2.7 per 10,000 exposures).

Football leads the list, slightly more than wrestling and more than twice the rate in girls» basketball and girls» soccer.

%) than soccer, where attendance by a doctor was rare (3.0 %), this despite the fact that statistics show that soccer, both boys» and especially girls, have concussion rates among the highest of all high school sports.

Consistent with previous studies, football accounted for more than half of all concussions and a concussion rate nearly double the rate for girls» soccer, the sport with the next highest rate.

Among directly comparable sports (soccer, basketball, baseball / softball), the severe injury rate was higher for girls (0.29 per 1,000 exposures) than for boys (0.23), with virtually all of the difference resulting from a much higher severe injury for girls» basketball (0.34) versus boys» basketball (0.24);

The results of the research paper are consistent with those of a 2013 study which found that, while ACL injuries did not disproportionately affect female high school athletes overall, girls were found to have a significantly higher ACL injury rate than boys in sex - comparable sports (soccer, basketball, and baseball / softball), with girls 2 times more likely to suffer an ACL injury playing soccer than any other sport, and 4 times more likely to sustain such an injury playing either soccer or basketball than volleyball or softball.

Not only are girls predisposed to instability or dislocation of the kneecap (patella), pain and problems under the kneecap, but the twisting and cutting in soccer make them particularly vulnerable to non-contact injuries of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), which they suffer at a rate two to ten times higher than boys.

Confirming previous data, the severe injury rate was more than three times higher in competition (0.79) than practice (0.24), both overall and in each of the nine sports studied (boy's football, boys» and girls» soccer, girls» volleyball, boys» and girls» basketball, boys» wrestling, boys» baseball, and girls» softball).

Among sex - comparable sports, the rate of sport - related concussion was 56 percent higher in girls than in boys.

Girls have higher concussion rates in sports like soccer and basketball than boys, but whether they experience greater levels of acute, postconcussive neurocognitive impairment remains unclear, even after extensive research.

Girls are moving to these subjects at a faster rate than boys.

«What is not encouraging is that girls living in predominantly high - poverty non-Hispanic black communities have HPV vaccination rates that are lower than rates for Hispanics,» added Henry.

On the whole, girls have higher rates of suicide ideation and planning than boys.

«In addition, vigorous physical activity, defined as activity that raises heart rate and breathing, increased more in girls than in boys.

In the US, teenage pregnancies are soaring and the mortality rate among babies born to young girls is higher in some cities than in parts of the developing world.

Prior studies have found that, before puberty, boys have approximately 1.5 times higher rate of asthma than girls.

When it comes to mathematics, girls rate their abilities markedly lower than boys, even when there is no observable difference between the two, according to Florida State University researchers.

Female adults had a higher response rate to language blocks initiated by infant girls than boys during the newborn period and at 44 weeks» PMA.

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17

Girls have higher rates of UTI than boys, and yet when a girl gets a UTI, she is simply prescribed antibiotics.

At base line, the patient's basal metabolic rate (1840 kcal per day) and total energy expenditure (2960 kcal per day) were higher, in absolute terms, than those of a typical nine - year - old girl weighing 28 kg (normal values: basal metabolic rate, 1100 kcal per day; total energy expenditure, 1790 kcal per day).16 However, when expressed per unit of lean mass, both her basal metabolic rate and her total energy expenditure were the same as the expected values (50 kcal and 80 kcal per day per kilogram of lean mass, respectively, both for the patient and for a normal nine - year - old girl).16

Additionally, the low levels of calcium in the first positive study were mainly associated with higher rates of obesity; the insulin resistance in calcium deficient girls could have been caused by the obesity rather than calcium itself.

In fact, one recent study involving women with celiac disease found that 37 % suffered from clinical depression, and another involving celiac children found depression rates ranging from more than 8 % in boys to nearly 14 % in girls.

O'Brien adds that it's also not known why the disease more often progresses in girls to a degree where treatment is required than it does in boys, at a rate of eight to one.

In fact, by age 5, girls already have higher heart rates than boys do.

2/5 this is my rating as I have dry skin, but I am sure girls with oily skin will love this cream and will rate it more than 2.

Pitch Perfect 2 Rated PG - 13 for innuendo and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray In a world where A Capella singing is more important than football, the girls from Pitch Perfect are back and performing for the president.

Less a cut - rate Gone Girl than a throwback to gothic, mid-1940s women's noirs like My Name Is Julia Ross, the movie mines common domestic...

Following the success ofR - rated, female - led ensemble comedy Girls Trip earlier this year, the chance that this sequel can duplicate its predecessor's success is more palpable than ever.

And elsewhere, in Chad and the Central African Republic, there is a flat rate of less than 70 girls for every 100 boys.

According to federal data, black girls are suspended from school at a rate that is six times higher than that of their white female peers.

They represent a population with a very high dropout rate, one that is higher than that of Latino girls, because the boys are more likely to feel the pull of the streets and of work.

More than 40 percent of African women do not have access to basic education, although it's proven that if a girl is educated for six years or more, as an adult her prenatal care, postnatal care, and childbirth survival rates will dramatically and constantly improve.

Parents became aware regarding the importance of education and they themselves send their children including daughters, in fact now the enrollment rate of girls is higher than the boys.

This fact from the World Bank may surprise you: Educating girls yields a higher rate of return than any other investment in the developing world.

Factors such as selective teacher referrals, high attrition rates, and an overrepresentation of girls and siblings mean that the students at no - excuses schools are more capable and determined than poor students generally.

And girls had both higher average scores and higher growth rates than boys.

And so what we found in that was even though girls had comparable test scores to boys and had actually higher grades, as was mentioned earlier, higher grades in math and science than boys, that teachers were more likely to rate the class as easy for the boys and as more difficult for the girls.

From as early as preschool, boys are expelled almost five times as often as girls; for all grade levels, African American students are suspended or expelled at rates several times higher than any other group; and nonheterosexual youth experience school sanctions up to three times more often than heterosexual youth.

The rate of birth injuries is higher among baby boys (about 6.6 per every 1,000 infants born) than for baby girls (about 5.1 per every 1,000).

Recent laws in some states has made it illegal for automobile insurance firms to charge different rates for men than for girls, while no clear changes look to be made within america or Canada.

Regardless of whether increased arrest rates represent a true increase in violent behavior among female adolescents compared with males or a policy shift toward arrest rather than alternative treatment of violent females, it is indisputable that the juvenile justice system is handling a rapidly growing share of girls.

By adolescence, however, girls» rates are significantly higher than boys» (Petersen, Sarigiani, & Kennedy, 1991).

Larger effect sizes were found in studies with higher proportion of girls, with a healthy control group, from developing countries, published before 1990, and that used parent rating or clinician ratings rather than child ratings.

A substantial body of research indicates that regardless of race and age, female offenders have higher rates of mental health problems, both internalizing and externalizing, than male offenders.19 In a study of serious «deep - end» offenders, females exhibited both more externalizing problems and more internalizing problems than males.20 Moreover, a recent study using common measures and a demographically matched sample of community and detained youth found that gender differences were greater among detained youth than among community youth, with detained girls having more symptoms of mental illness than would be predicted on the basis of gender or setting alone.21

Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.