Sentences with phrase «risk than that of the general population»

Twins in the study whose genomes showed a low risk for Alzheimer's, for example, did have about a 12 percent (thus, much, much smaller) risk than that of the general population (which, to begin with, has a relatively small risk of getting Alzheimer's during their lifetimes).

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However, we also found that the risk - tolerance of hybrid entrepreneurs was, on average, no greater than the level of risk tolerance found among people who remained employed — i.e., no greater than the general population,» Raffiee reports.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

A fertility doctor can transfer just one embryo — in hopes of reducing the risk of non-identical twins — but identical twins may still occur, and more frequently than in the general population.

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.

Volunteer firefighters say they are at greater risk than the general population of contracting cancer due to toxins they encounter on calls, and they are pushing for additional medical coverage through state legislation.

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.

There, people are at a higher risk of suicide than the general population.

«Renal transplant recipients had greater risk of developing melanoma than the general population.

Thus, this single genetic test can indicate a risk for bipolar illness that is 20-fold higher than that of the general population.

This risk appears to be lower among women in the general population (increase 31 %) than for women already at high risk of acquiring HIV such as sex workers.

These estimates are orders of magnitude higher than those for the so - called general population in Britain, but comparable with figures for certain other groups at high risk of infection, such as gay men attending clinics for sexually transmitted disease.

Professor Carol Brayne, Director of the Cambridge Institute of Public Health, adds: «Even with a reasonably large number of studies of anxiety disorder, data about marginalised groups is hard to find, and these are people who are likely to be at an even greater risk than the general population.

People with APOE4 face up to 12 times the risk of developing Alzheimer's than the general population.

Then she learned that people with 22q duplication — abnormal repetition, or duplication, of genetic material in chromosome 22 — had learning delays and sometimes autism, but a lower risk for schizophrenia than that found in the general population.

And for most of the diseases the researchers studied, people who were classified as low - risk based on their genome still had a risk that was more than half that of the general population — thus, lower than average, but not exactly null.

«The elderly living in long - term care facilities have higher influenza exposure risks, lower immune defenses and a much greater likelihood of flu - related death than the general population,» said lead author David A. Nace, M.D., M.P.H., director of long - term care and flu programs in Pitt's Division of Geriatric Medicine and chief medical officer for UPMC Senior Communities.

People who sell sex face a disproportionate risk and burden of HIV; in low - and middle - income countries, female sex workers have a 13.5 times greater chance of HIV infection than women in the general population.

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.

People with mood disorders are at increased risk of abusing opioids, and yet they received many more prescriptions than the general population, according to an analysis of data from 2011 and 2013.

Researchers in Norway analyzed more than a decade's worth of tuberculosis cases and found that infected immigrants pose little risk of spreading the disease to the general population.

But patients who had neurological infections had a higher risk of dying of some other diseases than the general population.

More than 20 % of the general population have been shown to be positive for the variants in the deCODE MI ™ test, and these individuals have roughly double the likelihood of early onset heart attack — that is, prior to the age of 50 in men and 60 in women — compared to those without the risk variants.

An international study of more than 3.2 million people with severe mental illness reveals a substantially increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease compared to the general population.

A study from an international research team finds that familial hypercholesterolemia — a genetic condition that causes greatly elevated levels of LDL cholesterol throughout life — accounts for less than 2 percent of severely elevated LDL in the general population but also increases the risk of coronary artery disease significantly more than does elevated LDL alone.

Epidemiological studies tell us that vegetarians have a lower risk of heart disease — about 24 % lower — than the general population.

In the general population, diets with less than 10 % energy from protein seem most likely to be full of empty calories: added sugar and alcohol, both of which are independently associated with cancer risk.

The study participants (nearly 300 of them) had 37 % lower risk for diabetes progression than the general population.

The review authors analyzed the findings of 40 studies and determined that taking vitamin D supplements does not reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, cancer or bone fractures in the general population by more than 15 percent.

[7, 8] Evaluating the effect of Asian ginseng in various forms — cooked, dried and fresh root — in 1,987 cancer cases, researchers found that the risk of developing certain cancers in a population that used ginseng for at least one year was less than the risk for the general population.

Patterson explains, «Having sex with strangers does not put people in the sex trade at any greater risk of contracting a sexually transmitted disease or infection than the general population» — although having a greater number of partners in general does increase the associated STI risk — and she notes that prostitutes are often very familiar with safer sex practices as their jobs depend on it.

So the risk is your puppy has a higher chance of inherited disease and behavior problems than the general population.

While anyone may be at risk of suffering a choking injury, many nursing home residents are at greater risk of choking than people in the general population.

These risk factors for heart disease are being found at an earlier age than in the general population, according to research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

In the case of insurance, avoiding adverse selection requires identifying groups of people more at risk than the general population and charging them more money.

In the general population, the most frequent of these is the combination of alcohol use disorder and depression and / or anxiety disorder.5 — 7 Comorbidity of alcohol abuse and dependence is two to three times higher for those who suffer from depression than for those in the general population.8 Moreover, risky alcohol use is associated with a higher probability of developing affective disorders than for not at - risk users.9

Between 31 % and 45 % of people with coronary heart disease suffer from clinically significant depressive symptoms, and 15 % — 20 % of them meet criteria of major depressive disorder which is roughly threefold higher than in the general population.13 It is now well established that depression is related to the incidence of CVD and is also an independent risk factor for cardiac morbidity and mortality.

According to the WHO, suicide was the second - leading cause of death worldwide in 2012 among people aged 15 — 29 years.1 In addition, a systemic review reported a strong association between self - harm and later suicide, with the risk of suicide among patients with deliberate self - harm (DSH) being hundreds of times higher than that in the general population.2 The terminology surrounding DSH is, however, complex.

The existence of depression and other mood disorders among people with intellectual disability (ID) is well accepted and there are indications that their risk for developing depression may be greater than the general population.

In Ethiopia, people with schizophrenia are at higher risk of 5 - year mortality than the general population

Limitations include under - reporting of injury events for reasons other than incomplete recall, different methodologies for intent ascertainment between fatal and non-fatal injury in the data sources used, lack of ascertainment of injury risk differentials among survey non-respondents and the use of 2002 general population survey data to compare with 2007 — 2008 traveller survey data.

Risk factors lead to developmental delays: Children with risk factors, such as living in low - income households, abuse or neglect, prenatal exposure to alcohol or other substances, and low parental education, have a higher incidence of developmental delays and disabilities than the general populatRisk factors lead to developmental delays: Children with risk factors, such as living in low - income households, abuse or neglect, prenatal exposure to alcohol or other substances, and low parental education, have a higher incidence of developmental delays and disabilities than the general populatrisk factors, such as living in low - income households, abuse or neglect, prenatal exposure to alcohol or other substances, and low parental education, have a higher incidence of developmental delays and disabilities than the general population.

Older men with substance use disorders are at greater risk for nonfatal attempts and for death by suicide than are younger persons.10, 11 Past suicide attempts are a strong risk factor for subsequent suicidal behaviors in those with substance use disorders.12 Depressed mood is a risk factor for suicidal behaviors in the general population and also predicts a greater likelihood of suicide in those with alcohol or drug use disorders.3, 6,10 The link between depression and suicidal behaviors in those with substance use disorders may be particularly strong given the high comorbidity between mood and substance use disorders.13 Although it has not been examined thoroughly, independent mood disorders and substance - induced mood disorders are likely to confer risk for suicide.

Similarly, the National Child Development Study in the UK, which has followed up a large general population sample of children born in 1958, found that children from single - parent families were at greater risk for psychological problems than a matched group of children from intact families not only in childhood (Ferri, 1976) but also in early adulthood (Chase - Lansdale et al., 1995) and middle age (Elliot and Vaitilingam, 2008).

While epidemiological data support that Latino youth are at no greater risk for substance use than the general youth population, some data indicate that they might be at greater risk for the co-morbid effects and consequences of substance use (e.g., school failure, incarceration, poor health).

A large number of individuals with moderately increased risk levels contribute more cases than a small number with extreme risk levels.41 Parenting programmes that target high - risk populations therefore miss a substantial number of families who develop the problem even though they are not currently in the elevated risk group.3, 9,11 The potential impact of such programmes at the population level is therefore minimal as only a small proportion of families in the general population participate in evidence - based programmes.10, 11 As Rose emphasized more than a decade ago, strategies that focus on high - risk individuals will deal only with the margin of the problem and will not have impact on the general population.

While the concurrence may be partly attributable to rater effects as the same caregiver completed both questionnaires at the same point in time, the different patterns of association with the potential risk factors may reflect the fact that in at - risk populations the two constructs may de facto overlap more than in the general population, representing commonly co-occurring outcomes with different determinants.

Consistent with prevalence rates of depression in adolescents with diabetes (Anderson, Freedland, Clouse, & Lustman, 2001; de Groot & Lustman, 2001; Grey, Whittemore, & Tamborlane, 2002), results indicated that the percent of youth at high risk for depression were higher than expected based on published general population norms (Reynolds & Kamphaus, 1998).

The finding that curative interventions are more effective than preventive interventions may be explained by a lower prevalence of child maltreatment in at - risk families / the general population than in maltreating families, making it «more difficult» to find significant differences between intervention and control groups (because of lower statistical power) and consequently, to prove the effectiveness of an intervention.