Sentences with phrase «stress than the population»

Not exact matches

It is rightly stressed that no sustainable society is possible apart from population stability.26 Such stability can not be attained at once, but there is great importance in developing policies which will rapidly slow population growth around the world and bring it to a halt at no more than six billion.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

People with low incomes and racial / ethnic minority populations experience greater levels of stress than their more affluent, white counterparts, which can lead to significant disparities in both mental and physical health that ultimately affect life expectancy, according to a report from the American Psychological Association.

Corn hybrids with improved tolerance to crowding stress, grown at higher plant populations than their predecessors, have been a driver of rising field corn yields in recent decades.

Previously exposed populations may be more tolerant to future stress events, but they may sometimes even be more sensitive than populations with no previous exposure.

Stress has been thought to be a contributing factor to the development of metabolic syndrome, which occurs about twice as often in patients with PTSD than in the general population.

Michaela Hau, an evolutionary physiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, says that the new study is «immensely valuable» because it was carried out with a large number of baboons who lived in the wild rather than a captive population, which might be suffering from different kinds of stresses due to captivity, social isolation, or variable food quality.

Researchers feared that the reintroduction of wolves to the area more than a decade ago was stressing out pregnant mothers, causing them to lose their babies and contributing to a declining elk population.

Mills stresses that there is a lot more going into premium increases than just new models that factor in climate change, including population increases along the coast, deterioration of infrastructure such as levies, and destruction of naturally protective wetlands.

Men who haven't had to work for their money likely have lower stress levels than the overall population, the researchers speculate, as do their wives or partners.

Airports usually stress me out, and how much could there be to do in one that serves a country with a population smaller than the New York metro area?

Twenty percent of the population is estimated to sleep too little (less than 6 hours a night); this can lead to changes in genes that regulate stress, our immune system, sleep - wake cycles, inflammation, and aging.

A new study conducted on a large population (more than 800 people) and spearheaded by the University at Buffalo's Michael Poulin found that stress did not predict mortality in those who helped others, but that it did in those who did not.

«These findings add to our understanding of how childhood stress is a more important driver of long - term weight gain than adult stress, and how such processes differ for men and women,» said Hui Liu, MSU associate professor of sociology and an expert in statistics, population - based health and family science.

Don't stress out if you are among the more than half of the single population in the U.S. that will be celebrating this romantic holiday solo, because you are not alone.

The stress on the state's infrastructure will become even more pronounced during the next 40 years, as its population will grow by more than 20 million people.

Johnstone Straight is like nowhere else on earth... Orca pods are much more intact here, and there are far fewer people and stresses on that population than elsewhere like the San Juan Islands.

Marginalized populations tend to depend more directly on local ecosystems for subsistence and survival, so ecosystem stress is likely to affect them more immediately than others.

climate impacts on decadal scale less important than population, land use and degradation (and how do you separate the four????); regions that adapt to current weather extremes and population will be better able to deal with any additional stresses from climate changes (apparently current stresses have nothing to do with climate)»

These same areas have high population growth rates (Africa much more so than India, but India's is still unsustainably high from a resource use perspective), which contributes to water stress now and in the future.

In the 2050s, differences in the population projections of the four SRES scenarios would have a greater impact on the number of people living in water - stressed river basins (defined as basins with per capita water resources of less than 1,000 m3 / year) than the differences in the emissions scenarios (Arnell, 2004b).

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.»

The research shows that lawyers grapple with significantly higher rates of problematic alcohol and drug use than other professionals and the rest of the population, including depression, anxiety, and stress.

The research reveals lawyers grapple with significantly higher rates of problematic alcohol and drug use than other professionals and the rest of the population — including depression, anxiety, and stress.

These results are similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

Mothers of a child with autism were highly stressed and more likely to report poor or fair mental health than mothers in the general population, even after adjustment for the child's social skills and demographic background.

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.

Fathers and mothers reported more stress when parenting with their child with ASD and / or ADHD than when parenting with the unaffected sibling; they also experienced more stress than a norm population.