Sentences with phrase «risks than other populations»

Not exact matches

«Our study shows that young knees are more prone to re-injury than the adult population when compared to other research in this area - and is the first study to examine the incidence and risk factors for further ACL injury in a solely juvenile population over the long term,» said lead author Justin Roe of North Sydney Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre.

Whilst it is clearly accurate to say that that the risk of not breastfeeding is greater with some conditions than others, what is a small protective effect in one child is likely to have a much more dramatic effect across a whole population.

African - Americans are at higher risk for the ocular complications of diabetes than are other segments of the population.

The ease of transport and the global population mean that humans are more at risk of disease than at any other time in our evolutionary history, Jones says.

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.

«Some populations are more at risk of certain diseases than others, and drug efficacy is also known to vary significantly.

The next step, he says, is to broaden the sample pool to determine what factors in the environment and in the microbiome might be making Finns — who are at exceptionally high risk of T1D — more predisposed to the disease than other populations.

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

In addition to increased power to find variants associated with asthma risk, the EVE dataset comprised a more ethnically diverse population than similar efforts in other countries by including European Americans, African Americans / African Caribbeans, and Latinos.

The University of Chicago researchers said the increased risk of premature death among women older than 50 «emphasizes the importance of other life - threatening health conditions in later life of the DES population.»

And sure, this is fine for roughly half the population that are genetically «fast caffeine metabolizers», but for the other half who have a variant of a gene called CYP1A2, any more than two cups per day increases the risk of a heart attack and hypertension.

What is very well known is that those that suffer from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses are at higher risk than the general population for cardiometabolic diseases, such as high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, etc..

Richer populations are assumed to be more likely to invest in coastal defences and some coastal communities will be less at risk than others, yet the cost of what Dr Hauer calls «adaptive infrastructure» in the US could reach $ 1 trillion.

Beyond law schools, mental health issues in the legal profession is something that is increasingly addressed: «But research suggests that [lawyers] are at much higher risk of depression, anxiety and substance abuse issues than people in the broader population — and may even be more susceptible than those in other high - stress professions, such as medicine.»

Their physical frailty and other deteriorating health conditions put them at a much higher risk for falls than the rest of the population.

The elderly are at a higher risk for such accidents than any other population.

Aboriginal Australians make up 3 % of the Australian population and have a life expectancy over 10 years less than that of non-Aboriginal Australians.3 The small amount of evidence available suggests that Australian Aboriginal children and adolescents experience higher levels of mental health - related harm than other young people4, 5 including suicide rates that are several times higher than that of non-Aboriginal Australian youth.4, 6 These high levels of harm are linked to greater exposure to many of the known risk factors for poor mental health and to the pervasive trauma and grief, which continues to be experienced by Aboriginal peoples due to the legacy of colonisation.7, 8 Loss of land and culture has played a major role in the high rates of premature mortality, incarceration and family separations currently experienced by Aboriginal peoples.

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.

Second, particular groups in this population constitute higher psychological risk than others, namely those with extended trauma experience, unaccompanied or separated children and adolescents, and those engaged in the uncertain process of sought asylum.

It is also apparent that particular groups in this population constitute higher psychological risk than others, namely those with extended trauma experience, unaccompanied or separated children and adolescents and those still in the process of seeking asylum.

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.

Further, the International Indigenous Working Group on HIV & AIDS (IIWGHA) says in its strategic plan that Indigenous peoples globally experience higher rates than other populations, as a direct result of colonisation and with risk factors including involvement in sex work, incarceration, drug use, sexual violence, and stigma and discrimination.

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.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.