Sentences with phrase «risk than males»

It is suggested that females with ADHD require a greater load of risk than males before manifesting symptoms [11, 14].

Female dogs appear more at risk than males.

Not exact matches

Males were nine times more likely than females to be victims of gunshot injuries, and men ages 20 to 24 were at the highest risk, the study found.

This makes men more primed to be the bigger risk takers, which help explains the higher number of male entrepreneurs than women, Musselman said.

According to Baleka, the average life expectancy for a long - haul truck driver in the U.S. is 61 to 64 years (10 to 15 years less than the average American male); truck drivers have the highest rate of obesity of any occupation in the U.S. (86 % are overweight, 69 % are obese); they have one of the highest rates of metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes; in some years they have had the highest number of fatalities of any occupation, making trucking one of the most dangerous and unhealthy occupations in the U.S.

females are believed to be at increased risk of ACL because they have wider hips than males)

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

But if this baby is also bottle - fed (with 1.5 times the risk), male (1.6 times), and of low birth weight (4.2 times), his overall risk is 655 times greater than it would be if he didn't bed share.

The risk of ACL injuries in female, teenage athletes is up to six times higher than in male athletes of the same age, competing in the same sports.

Focal theory - Females are seen as less blameworthy than males, females are viewed as being intrinsically less of a risk to society than males, and it may be perceived that females need to be shielded from harsh punishments.

To understand why there is a trend amongst conservative white males, the Gallup data was cross-examined with research about the «white male effect» — the idea that white males were either more accepting of risk or less risk averse than the rest of the public.

Predictors of homicide victims having a BAC equal to or greater than 0.08 % included being male (which doubled the risk), being of American Indian / Alaska Native or Hispanic race / ethnicity, and having a history of domestic violence.

«Male gender and UF FA values are independent risk factors for persistent post-concussion symptoms after three months and stronger predictors of time to recovery than initial symptom severity or neurocognitive test results,» Dr. Fakhran said.

Because this estrogen - driven pathway would be much weaker in males, the work may both explain the heart disease gender gap and suggest that women who use COX - 2 inhibitors may be at higher risk for atherosclerosis than men, says FitzGerald.

«Women have a higher incremental risk of suffering an arrhythmia after taking these drugs than do men probably because (1) the interval between heart muscle contractions is naturally longer for women than for men and (2) male sex hormones moderate the heart muscle's sensitivity to these drugs,» the U.S. General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office) concluded in 2001.

Mating with more than one male increases reproductive success for female prairie dogs, despite an increase in risks.

Loeb points out that much of the concern over cancer risk is that, as part of standard therapy for advanced prostate cancer, tumor growth is decreased by drugs that drastically reduce rather than increase male hormones.

In a study published in the journal CHEST ®, researchers found that asymptomatic PAF patients are more likely to be older, male, and have more comorbidities and a higher risk of stroke than symptomatic patients.

The team found that male workers in the manufacturing sector had a higher risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis than workers within the professional, administrative, and technical sectors (the reference group).

«While females who identify with being more masculine are at risk for a higher BMI than their more feminine peers, males who identify as being masculine face a larger challenge: both higher BMI and more rapid BMI gains.»

Within the manufacturing sector, male electrical and electronics workers and material handling operators had a twofold increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis than the reference group.

Take high - risk investments — research shows women tend to be more cautious than their male counterparts.

Male teens who experiment with cannabis before age 16, and have a high genetic risk for schizophrenia, show a different brain development trajectory than low risk peers who use cannabis.

Females may have more at stake in this assessment than males, she thinks, because females spend their entire lives on the same territory, so they use scent marks to assess the risk that neighbouring groups will encroach.

In some respects, these findings corroborate previous research that females tend to be at low risk for «harder» drugs than males.

Hashish tends to be much more potent than other marijuana, and this study has determined that it is primarily the males that are at higher risk for use of this more potent form of the drug.

As male babies are, on average, larger than female, this information would help identify unusually small male babies at high risk.

Here the data showed equal ratios of stillbirth in males and females and higher overall stillbirth risks than other countries.

In general, women appear to exert higher HPA sensitivity and therefore tend to be at higher risk, than males, of diseases associated with HPA dysfunction.

This trend may partly explain why, in general, women show better insulin sensitivity and overall more favorable cardio - metabolic risk profiles, than males if normoglycemic.

Diabetes appears to diminish the in general more favorable cluster of risk factors of females compared with males, leading to greater differences in central adiposity and risk factors related to coagulation and inflammation between diabetes and nondiabetes in women rather than in men (33).

In most clinical studies, women with T2DM show a higher burden of risk factors and comorbidities as well as more cognitive and physical functional limitations than males do (335, 336).

This data confirms that diabetes, even at an early stage, attenuates the protective effect of female sex and increases the risk for CVD in females to a greater extent than in males.

Quiz Ref IDPatients cared for by female physicians had lower 30 - day mortality than did patients treated by male physicians (10.82 % vs 11.49 %; risk difference [RD], — 0.67 %; 95 % CI, — 0.80 % to — 0.54 %; P <.001; number needed to treat [NNT] to prevent 1 death, 149) after accounting for patient characteristics (Table 2).

Patients treated by female physicians had lower 30 - day mortality (adjusted mortality, 11.07 % vs 11.49 %; adjusted risk difference, — 0.43 %; 95 % CI, — 0.57 % to — 0.28 %; P <.001; number needed to treat to prevent 1 death, 233) and lower 30 - day readmissions (adjusted readmissions, 15.02 % vs 15.57 %; adjusted risk difference, — 0.55 %; 95 % CI, — 0.71 % to — 0.39 %; P <.001; number needed to treat to prevent 1 readmission, 182) than patients cared for by male physicians, after accounting for potential confounders.

On the other hand, there is mounting evidence for a distinctive role played by motor vehicle traffic — related exposures in elevating cardiovascular risk.108, 111,268,269 Lipfert et al76, 77 interpreted the results of their analysis of the Veterans Affairs hypertensive male cohort as suggesting that traffic density was a more «significant and robust predictor of survival in this cohort» than PM2.5.

Again, you can blame it on biology: The frontal lobes of the brain — which deal with responsibility and risk calculation — develop much more slowly in males than females, Dr. Legato says.

Both circumcised and uncircumcised males have a lower rate of UTI than all females, though in most places, it would be considered barbaric to recommend female circumcision to reduce the risk of UTI.

The study findings may be about more than just bragging rights, however: Researchers say they may shed light on how male and female brains age differently, and why women are at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease.

A 2011 study in male Japanese factory workers found those who slept less than six hours a night had a five-fold increased heart attack risk over a 14 - year span compared with those who logged between 7 and 8 hours a night.

In the lowest category of sodium excretion, with an average of 1.9 grams per day, the percentage of subjects that had CVD events was higher (7.2 percent) than that of the second category (6.8 percent), with average excretion of 3 grams per day, even though the average BMI and percentage of high - risk males was lower in the lowest category.

This would give a grand total of 50 minutes a day and in my opinion, I think that unless you are a competitive bodybuilder with a perfect diet and a superb supplementation program designed to protect muscle mass, aerobic exercise should not be performed for more than 6 sessions a week of 20 - 45 minutes a day for males and 30 - 45 minutes for females since this would put you at a risk of losing muscle mass.

While females are likelier to experience fractures at an earlier age than males, the fact that this condition often goes undiagnosed and untreated more in men makes their risk factors for serious fractures increase.

Effect of sum score on hospitalisation risk The researchers found that males and females with the worst possible sum score for strength (4 points) were 1.8 and 2.8 times more likely to be hospitalised during the follow - up period, respectively, than similar individuals with the best possible sum score (0 points).

The association between liver disease and heart disease is stronger than other heart disease risks, including smoking, hypertension, diabetes, male gender, high cholesterol or metabolic syndrome.

Nowadays, whether it's just a Friday dress - down day you have to deal with or a more casual environment altogether, women run the risk of making a fashion «faux pas» more easily than their male counterparts.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, North Carolina (CMS) school choice program finds that high - risk male youth who are admitted by lottery to their preferred schools commit fewer crimes and remain in school longer than their peers who seek admittance but do not gain seats in the lottery process.

Conversely, science teachers and experienced male teachers [more than five years» experience] have a heightened risk of leaving, especially after controlling for their level of engagement.»

Even though we're more willing to take risks than older generations, we still lag our male peers in this department.

Modern investment fraud victims are: «More likely to be male, relatively wealthy, risk - taking, interested in persuasive statements, open to sales situations, and better educated than the general public.