Sentences with phrase «scores at this age»

Over a 10 - year period, they recorded the cumulative consumption of discretionary hot foods, sweet and savoury snacks, and sweet drinks starting from the children's first year of life, and the impact this had on the link between socio - economic position and the children's BMI z - score at the age of 10 or 11.

Figure 3 shows the cluster - adjusted mean child verbal IQ scores at age 6.5 years across maternal education in each randomized group.

Because mean child IQ scores at age 6.5 years, verbal IQ scores in particular, were higher among children in the intervention than the control group, 16 we might expect that socioeconomic inequalities in child IQ would be widened in the intervention group, owing to the increase in observed inequalities in breastfeeding.

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

The Figure shows the adjusted KBIT - II scores at age 7 years by category of any breastfeeding duration (< 1, 1 - 3, 4 - 6, 7 - 9, 10 - 11, and ≥ 12 months).

Results Adjusting for sociodemographics, maternal intelligence, and home environment in linear regression, longer breastfeeding duration was associated with higher Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test score at age 3 years (0.21; 95 % CI, 0.03 - 0.38 points per month breastfed) and with higher intelligence on the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test at age 7 years (0.35; 0.16 - 0.53 verbal points per month breastfed; and 0.29; 0.05 - 0.54 nonverbal points per month breastfed).

Compared with children who were never breastfed, the fully adjusted PPVT - III score at age 3 years was 1.45 (95 % CI, − 0.98 to 3.87) points higher for children who were ever breastfed, and the KBIT - II verbal score at age 7 years was 3.75 (1.17 - 6.33) points higher.

We observed a similar pattern of attenuation for the KBIT - II verbal and nonverbal scores at age 7 years.

Our outcome measures were the PPVT - III and WRAVMA scores at age 3 years and the KBIT - II, WRAVMA, and WRAML scores at age 7 years.

Compared with children fed breast milk only, the PPVT - III score at age 3 years was approximately 3 points lower for children never breastfed and approximately 2 points lower for weaned children and those receiving mixed feedings (P =.01 for trend).

We found a similar trend for the KBIT - II verbal and nonverbal scores at age 7 years but observed no appreciable trend for the WRAVMA or WRAML scores.

Adjusting for child age and sex (model 0), longer breastfeeding duration was associated with higher PPVT - III score at age 3 years (0.58; 95 % CI, 0.40 - 0.76 points per month breastfed).

In Table 4, we give fully adjusted associations of any and exclusive breastfeeding with all cognitive test scores at ages 3 and 7 years.

Stratifying by maternal postpartum fish intake (< 2 vs ≥ 2 servings per week), the relationship between breastfeeding duration and the WRAVMA score at age 3 years seemed stronger in children of women with higher vs lower fish intake (Table 6), but the interaction was not statistically significant (P =.16 for interaction).

Differences in Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test — Second Edition Verbal Scores at Age 7 Years According to Duration of Any Breastfeeding, With Linear Trend Line

That 2005 Economic Journal study of American women who returned to work within 12 weeks showed that infants whose mothers went back even earlier were likely to have more behavioral problems and lower cognitive test scores at age 4.

Estimates of the risk (odds ratio) of getting a «low» WPPSI - R score at age 5 years among children breast fed for less than 3 months compared to children breast fed for six months or more, adjusted for maternal age, education, smoking, and Raven score

A study matching newborn glucose concentration screening results with fourth - grade achievement test scores suggests that early transient newborn hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) was associated with lower test scores at age 10, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

An ongoing study that started in 1970 gathered data from 8,000 people, including their IQ test scores at ages five and 10.

What's more, a follow - up study found that more typical brain responses correlated «with near perfect accuracy» with higher scores on a range of cognitive tests at age 4, and even higher scores at age 6, Kuhl says.

Associations between cardiovascular fitness and intelligence scores as well as muscular strength and intelligence scores at age 18 y

Increased cardiovascular fitness, as measured by Wmax / kg by using an ergometer cycle, was associated with better cognitive scores at age 18 y.

Children with high maths scores at the age of 10 earn 7 % more by the time they reach 30, according to the Government.

And, according to international comparative tests (PISA — Programme for International Student Assessment, PIRLS — Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, and TIMMS — Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study), «children with at least two years of preschool achieve much higher scores at age 15 than those who attend no preschool or only one year».

Between the early 1970s and 2008, math scores at this age improved by 4 points for white students, 17 points for African American students, and 16 points for Latino students.

The study finds that the children who attended the program had significantly higher test scores at ages 5, 6, 9, and 14 than non-center students.

The magnitudes of the emotional support and cognitive stimulation scores were meaningful, with a 1 - SD increase in each of these scores at age 4 years associated with a 33 % decrease in the odds of being a bully in grade school.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

She finds no difference in children's vocabulary scores at age three between stable two - parent families (whether cohabiting or married) and stable single - mother families, but she finds that scores are lower in unstable families (whether cohabiting or married) than in stable families.42 Carey Cooper and co-authors also highlight the role that partnership instability plays in the link between family structure and child cognitive development, although these links are much weaker than those they find for behavioral development (discussed below).43

No effect on California Achievement Test scores at age 17 years was observed.

However, in Healthy Families Alaska, program children had higher Bayley scores at age two than controls, with 58 percent of intervention children and 48 percent of controls scoring in the normal range.101 In the Nurse - Family Partnership evaluations, some effects were observed within each of the three evaluations, but most effects were concentrated within specific subgroups of families.

Subjects contributing more observations had a lower adiposity z score at age 15 mo (P < 0.05), but there were no differences in adiposity z scores at other ages.

The only other association that reached statistical significance was between categories of maternal 1 - h glucose and a BMI Z score at 2 years ≥ 85th percentile (χ2 for trend = 5.32, df = 1, P = 0.017), but the overall correlation between maternal glucose during pregnancy and BMI Z score at age 2 years was weak (fasting glucose r = 0.05, P = 0.08; 1 - h glucose r = 0.04, P = 0.22; 2 - h glucose r = 0.03, P = 0.36; and area under the curve r = 0.04, P = 0.18).

One early such population based study found that verbal reasoning scores at age 11 increased with increasing birth weight.3 This association was also detected in early adulthood, 4 although not in later life.5

The vast majority of those children whose scores were in the normal range at pre-school also scored in the normal range at entry to primary school, particularly in relation to the pro-social and total difficulties scores; 94 % of children whose total difficulty score at age 3 was classified as normal also had a score in the normal range at school entry.

The highest associations between early and later scores were observed in relation to the total difficulties scale where those with borderline scores and those with abnormal scores at age 3 had odds 8 and 17 times higher than those with normal scores of having a score in the higher ranges at age 5.

For example, looking at the «Normal» row under «Conduct problems» we can see that 85 % of children whose conduct problems score at age 46 months was in the normal range also had a conduct score in the normal range at entry to primary school, but 11 % moved from having a normal score at pre-school to having a borderline score at entry to primary school.

Thus children with higher scores at age 3 tend to also have higher scores at school entry.

This finding is supported by the results of the regression analysis which show that a previous score in the borderline or abnormal range is strongly associated with a similar score at age of school entry.

Perceived encouragement for PA from fathers, but not mothers, at age 15, was significantly associated with adolescent PA at age 15 and body satisfaction scores at age 16.

Adolescents reporting higher PA behavior and perceived encouragement for PA from fathers at age 15 had higher body satisfaction scores at age 16.

Maternal depression has been repeatedly associated with sleep disturbance in childhood, 7,21 and in at least 1 study, it predicted persistent child sleep problems.7 In contrast, maternal EPDS score at age 6 to 12 months did not predict sleep problems at the age of 3 to 4 years in this study.

It is interesting to note that correlations of parenting practices at age 2 and children's social skills scores at age 2 are small but increase as the children get older.

Not exact matches

In James» 15th season, at age 33, he has scored slightly better than his career average, averaged a new high in assists per game, and posted the third - best True Shooting Percentage of his career.

The critically - acclaimed Amazon drama Transparent — created by Jill Soloway and inspired by her own father's transition at age 75 — won the 2015 Golden Globe for best TV series, musical or comedy, thereby increasing its odds to score an Emmy (or two) come September.

The logic behind this piece of misguided advice seems sound at first: The average age of your credit lines affects your credit score, and the older, the better.

A University of London longitudinal study tested vocabulary skills of the same people at ages 16 and 42 and found at the younger age the average test score was 55 percent.

China's Communist Party is a merciless meritocracy... if you're in Chinese leadership, you made it there by scoring high on a long series of exams, starting at age twelve — which means you haven't met a stupid person since you were in junior high school.

Credit building: «The benefits of building a credit score at a young age are insurmountably more valuable than the potential pitfalls,» Butera says.

Of course you can — but then, you reduce the average age of accounts and add to the number of inquiries, which may drop your score, at least temporarily.