Sentences with phrase «relatively healthy adult»

If you're a relatively healthy adult, there's a good chance that you won't utilize health services that much during the year.

For the vast majority of relatively healthy adults, getting HMO quotes is an easy and fast process.

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Other members should be drawn from the youth and adults in the congregation who are both relatively mentally healthy and socially concerned.

BW, I was fortunate enough to come to faith in a Missouri Synod Lutheran Church that was slightly less fundamentalist than most as an ADULT from a relatively healthy unchurched family.

17 Lungs almost always show some pathology in adults, even in those who were relatively healthy in life.

Blood samples were drawn at four time points before and after surgery from relatively healthy older adults who were undergoing major elective surgery.

Lead author Dr. Stefan Gravenstein, a professor at both the Warren Alpert Medical School and the School of Public Health at Brown University, said that while a prior study showed that older individuals could respond better to the high - dose vaccine, that study focused on relatively healthy older adults.

«Our research provides some reassuring evidence suggesting that there is no determinantal effect of infrequent, relatively light use of marijuana on kidney function among healthy adults under age 60,» commented lead investigator Murray A. Mittleman, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing preventive cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

PanIN1 lesions are relatively common, affecting 16 percent of healthy adults and 60 percent of people with chronic pancreatitis, or inflammation of the pancreas.

The healthy young adults who took part in the study experienced increased memory performance over a relatively short time period after the training sessions.

These types of policies are relatively inexpensive, particularly for young, healthy adults.

Some or all of the breeder's dogs may be housed outdoors in kennels, but this is relatively healthy for any breeder with more than five or six adult dogs.

Adolescents in healthy dating relationships — which are characterized as having «open communication, high levels of trust and partners who are relatively close in age» according to Sarah Sorensen of the ACT for Youth Center of Excellence — learn about romance and intimacy in ways that will help forge solid self - concepts, interpersonal skills and partnerships in their adult lives.

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.