Sentences with phrase «rate than the general population»

«But that's not the case with mental - health issues,» including depression, which he believes affects entrepreneurs at a higher rate than the general population.

And yet Gulf War II - era vets still face higher unemployment rates than the general population — 15.5 % for female vets, 9.2 % for male vets.

Evangelicals have lower science education and participation rates than the general population, suffer from a strain of anti-intellectualism within their ranks, are not always well served by a commitment to revelation over discovery, and possess undue trust in religious leaders — particularly in areas about which those leaders generally have little expertise, he said.

In 2013, approximately 42 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were smokers — a substantially higher rate than the general population.

Some immigrant groups (from Northern and Southern Europe and East Asia, for example) had lower rates than the general population.

As people with HIV live longer, they are developing cancers at higher rates than the general population

People that enjoy «tanning» often eat very poor diets and smoke at a higher rate than the general population.

Not all e-reading device owners read e-books, but in general they do so at a much higher rate than the general population; they are also more likely to read in general, and to read a book on a typical day.

The new 2 -3-minute video modules, part of Zoetis» ongoing Commitment to Veterinarians ™ platform, are a response to the growing body of evidence that veterinary professionals worldwide experience mental illness, depression, and suicidal tendencies at a significantly higher rate than the general population.

The Patronek - Crowe study found, however, that dogs who were adopted and then returned had higher subsequent adoption rates than the general population of dogs.

There are a number of trends currently facing the legal profession (increased client sophistication, fee pressures, stagnant growth, the number of lawyers growing at a faster rate than the general population, succession planning needs and an increased emphasis on non-traditional skills — see the CBA Futures Report for a more fulsome list) that make the traditional practice model difficult (impossible?)

Indigenous children and young people are removed from their families at a higher rate than the general population in Australia.

Today indigenous children and young people continue to be removed from their families at a higher rate than the general population.

Not exact matches

The report also points out that Dreamers start businesses at more than twice the rate of the general population, in large part because they are used to making ends meet without help from the government.

People of color are increasingly launching businesses at a faster rate than that of the general population.

The military spouse unemployment rate sits around 26 percent — much higher than the general population — and military spouses are likely to make 38 percent less than their civilian counterpart.

The organization's 2015 Military Lifestyle Survey found that female military spouses experience unemployment at nearly three times the rate of their civilian counterparts despite also demonstrating greater educational and professional experience than the general population.

Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

Both groups molest children at rates lower than the general population.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

The AG's rate of expansion since 1989 has been even higher than the general population growth, the denomination reported.

With the divorce rate among couples using NFP being less than 10 per cent of that of the general population - whether NFP is used to facilitate or space births - there's no obvious indication of imperfection.

In a study of former NFL players, Guskiewicz found that suffering multiple concussions can make athletes more vulnerable to depression later in life and, last year, data revealed that retired NFL players suffered from higher rates of dementia and Alzheimer's than the general population.

Unintended pregnancy rates among women with substance use disorders are approximately 80 %, considerably higher than in the general population.

And while young people in general tend to vote at lower rates than the population as a whole, the signs are that student turnout in 2015 will be high.

Rep. Richard Hanna says Congress should help determine why America's firefighters have a higher rate of cancer than the general population, and what risk factors might be to blame.

More than 70 per cent of the prison population has two or more mental health disorders, and the suicide rate in prisons is almost 15 times higher than in the general population.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna says Congress should help determine why America's firefighters have a higher rate of cancer than the general population, and what risk factors might be to blame.

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.

In the latest trial, reported in the October issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, the vaccine prevented 70 % of severe diarrhea cases on American Indian reservations, where incidence rates are higher than in the general U.S. population.

The SMRs were also consistent across all age groups, except for the age - group younger than 30 years in whom a non-significantly higher death rate was observed (SMR 1.65) compared to the general population.

«Both estimates are higher than published rates for the general U.S. population, suggesting that special attention should be paid to these conditions among bariatric patients,» the researchers write.

The study found that of the 786 cyclists, 208 (26 %) had died by September 01, 2012 — an SMR of 0.59 and a mortality rate that is 41 % lower than the general population, said Dr. Jouven.

The 11.5 % rate of anxiety disorders — such phobia, panic or generalized anxiety disorder — was slightly higher than in the general population (9 %), while the prevalence of other mental health diagnoses was similar to rates in the general population.

The rate of preeclampsia was also significantly higher, at 11.5 percent, than the 3.1 percent reported in the general population.

At least 14 of 600 employees who'd been at the plant for more than 10 years had developed prostate cancer — a rate nine times as high as that of the general statewide population.

In that paper, the authors found that the median smoking rate among people in addiction treatment was 76.3 percent, in contrast with the smoking rate in the general U.S. population, which is now estimated at less than 18 percent.

The annual rate of new TB cases among the general population in Russia more than doubled in the 1990s to 88 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

«The existing totality of evidence suggests an urgent need to increase the use of varenicline in the general population as well as in those with serious mental illness who on average die about 20 years earlier than the general population, in part, because their smoking rates may be as high as 75 percent,» said Hennekens.

Similarly, people with mental illness are more than twice as likely to smoke cigarettes as the general population, with estimated prevalence rates ranging between 45 to 88 per cent among people with schizophrenia, 58 to 90 per cent among those with bipolar disorder and 37 to 73 per cent among people with a major depressive disorder, compared to a rate of about 20 per cent in the general population.

«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.

In the general population, the hospitalization rate for nonfatal TBI is 60.6 per 100,000; however, in the 65 - and - older population, the rate more than doubles to 155.9 per 100,000.

These figures are higher than rates in the general US population (248 and 3,501 per 100,000, respectively).

Previous studies have identified higher rates of cancer among patients with IBD than the general population, but these studies have lacked the population size or follow - up to assess trends in lifetime risks in childhood onset IBD.

Follow - ups at age 26 revealed that the kids with hallucinations had developed full - on schizophrenia at more than 25 times the rate of the general population.

Rates of premature death among drug abusers are up to eight times higher than in the general population, according to some estimates.

It is already known that patients with multiple sclerosis have higher rates of depression than the general population and that symptoms of multiple sclerosis arise from an abnormal response of the body's immune system.

A new study finds that, even in towns along major drug trafficking routes, immigrants use illicit drugs at lower rates than the general U.S. population.

Among men with cancer that had spread beyond the prostate (metastatic cancer), the death rate in the first month was more than triple that in the general population.

Rates of depression following discharge are far greater for these patients than for the general population, according to the study.