Sentences with phrase «than that of the general population»

The prevalence for minorities to be exposed to domestic violence is much higher than that of the general population.

On the question about whether they were satisfied with their social roles and activities, 58 percent of people with stroke had scores meaningfully worse than those of the general population.

People of color are increasingly launching businesses at a faster rate than that of the general population.

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.

Cases involving active duty military personnel and veteran families within the child support system are more complex in nature than those of the general population.

While unemployment rates among veterans have generally been lower than those of the general population, this has not been the case among young women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.

People with these illnesses live with depressive or manic symptoms for about 50 per cent of the time, experience a decreased quality of life and have an expected life span of 10 - 15 years shorter than that of the general population.

Comparing numbers might lead us to think that Asian minorities are doing well and that encouraging such students to pursue a science or engineering career is unnecessary because their representation in these fields is greater 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).

But people who followed these three rules had an average life expectancy even higher than that of the general population of Japan — a country known for its longevity.

People who buy life insurance tend to be sicker than those of the general population, who tend to be sicker than annuitants.

BOSTON — The oral health of ethnic minorities and lower - income groups is much worse than that of the general population, but leveraging social networks and other innovative healthcare delivery channels may help close this troubling gap.

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

But, the divorce rate in couples who have a child with DS is lower than that of the general population.

Not surprisingly, the area where the people with stroke were most affected was physical functioning, where 63 percent had scores considered meaningfully worse than those of the general population, with an average score of 59, where a score of 50 is considered the population average.

Previous epidemiological surveys have shown that prevalence of hyperglycemia or metabolic syndrome in patients with BD was higher than that of the general population; hence, the researchers concluded that lipid abnormality may be involved in BD pathophysiology.

The rate of psychosis [5] with the prison environment is much higher amongst women (25 %) and men (15 %) than that of the general population (4 %).