Sentences with phrase «study than those of general populations»

The groups were chosen because they have remained fairly isolated since their founding and their genetics are therefore simpler for scientists to study than those of general populations.

Not exact matches

On the topic of business education, the Gallup study showed that African American, Asian, and Hispanic business owners were more likely than business owners in the general population to be extremely or very interested in learning how to build a strong business credit application, choose a credit product, and develop a business plan.

Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

The study captured the opinions and behaviors of more than 5,000 moms and members of the general population as well as an ethnography study of 23 moms that included over 1,000 text logs, 200 video entries, and 32 hours of in - home interviews.

In a study of former NFL players, Guskiewicz found that suffering multiple concussions can make athletes more vulnerable to depression later in life and, last year, data revealed that retired NFL players suffered from higher rates of dementia and Alzheimer's than the general population.

«In our study, infants with DP who were the product of a multiple - birth pregnancy were disproportionately higher than in the general population and greater than in previous studies,» Oh said.

The National Institute of Mental Health has studies that show Americans with a major mental illness die 14 - 32 years earlier than the general population.

A similar study that specifically addressed the relationship between burnout and suicidal thoughts found half of the 4287 surveyed medical students were feeling burned out and 11 % had thought about suicide in the previous year, a figure substantially higher than that in the general population.

French researchers used clinical examinations and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies to determine whether retired professional rugby players experience more serious symptoms of cervical spine degeneration than people in the general population.

The study found that of the 786 cyclists, 208 (26 %) had died by September 01, 2012 — an SMR of 0.59 and a mortality rate that is 41 % lower than the general population, said Dr. Jouven.

Deaf people who sign have poorer health than the general population, according to a study led by researchers from the School for Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol.

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Studies of centenarians have found they're more laid back than the general population and show more optimism about the future.

Consumption of contaminated fish «is an especially pressing concern for many communities of color, low - income communities, tribes, and other indigenous peoples, whose members may consume fish, aquatic plants, and wildlife in greater quantities than does the general population,» according to a landmark Environmental Protection Agency study published nearly a decade ago.

The investigators found that 32 % of patients experienced at least one clinically meaningful mental health issue (defined in the study as a mental health disorder)-- a prevalence higher than in the general population, in which 18 - 20 % are estimated to have a clinically meaningful mental disorder.

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.

Antipsychotic drugs are initiated in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) more frequently than in the general population — already 2 - 3 years before the Alzheimer's diagnosis, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.

Commenting on the findings, Prof Robert Pirker, programme director for lung cancer at the Vienna General Hospital in Vienna, Austria, not involved in the study, said: «This subgroup analysis shows that the effect of necitumumab was slightly greater in patients with EGFR expressing tumours than it was in the entire SQUIRE population.

More than 80 percent of people with depression in the general population aren't eligible for clinical trials of antidepressant drugs, according to a study in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice.

This enabled the researchers to study the activities of more than 3,600 adults representing the general U.S. population, including 383 adults with chronic kidney disease.

The study population included all Olmsted County, Minn., residents older than 20 years from 1984 through 2011, comprising approximately 140,000 people, of whom 83 percent were non-Hispanic white and socioeconomically similar to the general Midwestern U.S. population.

«Although the definition of underrepresented minority is evolving to reflect local and regional perspectives, findings from this study demonstrate that faculty who are underrepresented in medicine, relative to the general population, have seen little increase in absolute or percentage representation across all schools during this time period, while the prevalence of individuals of underrepresented minority status in the general population had increased to greater than 30 percent by 2010,» the authors write.

Patients with mental illness are two and a half times more likely to be victims of homicide than people in the general population, according to a national study examining the characteristics of homicide victims across England and Wales, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal.

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).

The results of a study involving more than 9,000 patients, presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2016) showed that Type 1 diabetes occurs significantly more frequently in patients with Juvenile Inflammatory Arthritis (JIA) than in the general population.

The South Asian population in the UK has a higher incidence of diabetes and poorer health outcomes from treatment than the general population, but studies in the past have not focused on the role of social networks or assessed beliefs about diabetes to explore self - management behaviours in this 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.

Based on clinically validated questionnaires, 41 % of respondents showed moderate to severe anxiety and 39 % moderate to severe depression, both of which are more than six times the prevalence found in studies of the general population.

In a study to be published in the July issue of the journal Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, Dr. Rourke noted that aging for people with HIV may be more challenging than for the general population because of HIV - related stigma, loss of friends and social networks, and the detrimental health effects of the virus and medications taken to combat the virus.

The study included more than 100,000 adults from the general populations of 17 countries, providing a broad sample of people that varied greatly in socioeconomic, geographic and demographic makeup.

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.

A 2013 meta - analysis, combining much of the existing data, by Jim van Os of Maastricht University in the Netherlands and Richard Linscott of the University of Otago in New Zealand, found the prevalence of hallucinations and delusions in the general population was 7.2 percent — much higher than the 0.4 percent prevalence of schizophrenia diagnoses found in recent studies.

We now know that COPD is not any more common in Aboriginal Australians than in the general population, and we suggest that smaller lung volumes are probably more related to environmental and socioeconomic factors than to genetics alone,» said Dr. Nathania Cooksley, lead author of the Respirology study.

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.

This new study is the largest ever meta - analysis of SMI and cardiovascular disease, including over 3.2 million patients and more than 113 million people from 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.

Although the National Toxicology Program said formaldehyde is «known to be a human carcinogen» in 2011, after studies linked it to cancers of the nose and myeloid leukemia, that research looked at manufacturing and funeral industry workers, who are exposed to higher levels of the substance than the general population, explains Laura Beane Freeman, PhD, an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute.

Rates of depression following discharge are far greater for these patients than for the general population, according to the study.

They found that the prevalence of EoE in subjects with celiac disease is 10x higher than the general population in the majority of the studies.

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

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

A 2005 study in the Journal of Nutrition found that raw - foodists were far less likely than the general population to register high levels of «bad» LDL cholesterol.

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.

In one study, out of 210 patients with metabolic syndrome, migraine prevalence was estimated at 11.9 % in men and 22.5 % in women — higher than in the general population (7).

The volunteers averaged 7.7 hours of sleep prior to the study, far more than the 6.5 hours or so reported in the general population, Dr. Kripke notes.

Contrary to stereotypes of online daters popular at the time of the study, and in direct contrast to the prejudicial views held by participants (especially the undergraduates) in the Donn and Sherman (2002) study, Brym and Lenton found that their sample of online daters was in fact more sociable offline than the general Canadian population.

A study of homeschooled student scores on standardized achievement tests shows higher scores than the general population (National Home Education Research Institute, 1997).

Studies of college enrollment and graduation rates of scholarship alumni have shown that, despite coming from socioeconomic backgrounds associated with lower rates of college enrollment, Children's Scholarship Fund students enroll in college at an average rate that is similar to or higher than the general population.

The study concluded that writers in particular were common among sufferers of schizophrenia, depression, anxiety and substance abuse, and were almost fifty percent more likely to commit suicide than the general population.

The Patronek - Crowe study found, however, that dogs who were adopted and then returned had higher subsequent adoption rates than the general population of dogs.