Sentences with phrase «use than younger adults»

It is also important to examine drinking status as well as the amount of alcohol consumed as older adults may be more affected by lower levels of alcohol use than younger adults.

Not exact matches

More than three - quarters of black adolescent and young adult smokers use Newports, a menthol cigarette produced by Lorillard, according to a 2004 study.

And a large 2013 study found that breastfeeding babies younger than 3 months who bed - shared with adults were five times more likely to die of SIDS, even when their parents were not using tobacco, alcohol, or drugs.

A Home Office spokesperson said the UK's approach to drugs was to prevent use and help individuals recover, while also enforcing laws: «We have seen a reduction in drug misuse among adults and young people over the last 10 years and more people are recovering from their dependency now than in 2009 - 10.

In 2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency («EPA») concluded that appropriate use of DEET at concentrations of up to 30 % posed no significant risk to children or adults but that DEET should not be used on children younger than 2 months of age because of increased skin permeability.

With tasks involving the temporary storage and manipulation of memory, long term memories and inhibitory control, young adults favor the right side of the PFC, while older adults engage both the right and left PFC.. In fact, with aging, we tend to use both sides of the PFC during mental tasks, rather than just one.

The 18 - week study of 318 healthy young adults found that combining physical exercise and mild electric brain stimulation with computer - based cognitive training promoted skill learning significantly more than using cognitive training alone.

Young adults who use electronic cigarettes are more than four times as likely to begin smoking tobacco cigarettes within 18 months as their peers who do not vape, according to new University of Pittsburgh research.

The study results also can not be used to guide cholecalciferol therapy for young adults, men, or women older than 75, according to the authors.

Brentari et al. also found that young signers of ASL use certain intonational features with different frequencies than adult ASL signers.

Young adults ages 18 to 25 are the group that has the highest level of tobacco use, reporting rates of smoking that are nearly 50 percent higher than either high school seniors or adults over age 26.

The estimated 21 percent of American adults who use Twitter tend to be younger and more technologically literate than the general population, Thorstad concedes.

Not surprisingly, research suggests that young adults most often use their phones for entertainment purposes rather than for school or work.

The researchers also found that while any e-cigarette use was higher among young adults, daily e-cigarette use was more common among adults over age 25 than among young adults aged 18 - 24.

«E-cigarettes will likely cause more public health harm than public health benefit unless ways can be found to substantially decrease the number of adolescents and young adults who vape and increase the number of smokers who use e-cigarettes to successfully quit smoking,» says Soneji.

To that end, health experts and government regulators have been awaiting the first results of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study, a comprehensive, ongoing national survey of tobacco use among more than 30,000 young people and adults.

Dr. Smith also finds it disconcerting that younger girls appear to be using more cosmetic and personal care products than adult women.

Whites were more likely to drink and use drugs as young adults than blacks, Hispanics and Asians, even though Hispanics and Asians generally had easier access to alcohol and drugs in the home as teens, according to the study.

He adds that millennials have been exposed to activities like yoga at younger ages than in the past and that many younger adults use mind and body treatments like yoga, tai - chi and meditation for their wellness benefits.

A smaller, University of Pittsburgh study published Sept. 20 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that young adults who paired fitness trackers with diet and physical activity actually lost fewer pounds after two years than a similar group who didn't use the devices.

But in contrast to the never - married, younger adults (those ages 18 - 34) who are married or living with a partner are more likely than their older counterparts (those 35 and older) to say they have used online dating (14 % vs. 7 %).

These young adults are now more likely than any other age group to use mobile dating apps.

Importantly, this latter finding — especially the positive association between age and using online personals ads to find marital partners — suggests that older adults are not only more involved in the pursuit of romantic partners via the Internet than younger adults, but more serious in their pursuits, as well.

Older adults may thus find the sheer volume of the user base, the speed, and the convenience of use associated with online personals ads appealing to a greater extent than do younger persons.

Not surprisingly, young adults — who have near - universal rates of social networking site use and have spent the bulk of their dating lives in the social media era — are significantly more likely than older social media users to have experienced all three of these situations in the past.

«Not only does the Extreme Read expose a math teacher, for example, to a young adult novel he or she would not typically have used in the classroom, but it allows students to see teachers and adults other than their language arts teacher as readers,» she added.

The margin of opposition to vouchers grows by 38 points among young adults and by 14 points among people in less - than - $ 100,000 households using the more detailed question, while holding essentially steady among seniors and among top - income Americans.

Younger Americans are significantly more likely than older adults to have used a library in the past year, including using a library website.

Appearing with the statement is a symbol denoting primary use or appeal: YA, for those books of general YA interest; YA / C, for books of curriculum use; YA / S, for books that will appeal most to teens with a special interest in a specific subject; and YA / M, for books most suitable for mature young adult readers of any age capable of adult judgment and able to respond to the book as a whole rather than reacting to isolated parts or incidental aspects.

The author's use of an alternating narrative between the mother and her young daughter is an interesting way of showing how a young child's understanding and reaction to a life changing event, in this case the attack on Pearl Harbor, may be very different than an adult's.

It showed that the younger demographic of consumers in the 18 -29-year-old range — arguably some of those same teenagers and college students who may have been reluctant digital readers at the beginning of the e-reader device surge — are three times more likely than any other age range of adults to use an online source such as social media or retailers» online storefronts to browse and discover new books to read.

Younger adults ages 18 to 29 (54 %) are more likely than their elders to have used libraries during the previous year.

Members of the youngest adult generation are also more likely than their elders to have used library websites.

Initial indicators from the Book Industry Study Group more than a year ago demonstrated the young adults were the least likely demographic to adopt digital reading, preferring instead to use their electronic devices for socialization rather than education.

Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.

One member of our online panel wrote: «We... need to encourage young adults to use the resources we provide for free - databases, e-books, programs, etc. rather than relying solely on Google and other search engines.»

Adult dragons generally eat less substrate and can digest it easier than younger dragons so you can use a wider variety of flooring with adults.

Use of the crate should be limited to a few hours at a time (adult dogs no more than 6 hours, puppies no more than 4 hours, pups younger than 11 weeks no longer than 2 hours).

Rather than being forced into a game in which she has to solve murder mysteries like the original series, Another Episode is a third - person shooter that has its young hero fighting for her life in Towa City, which has been overrun by children using robots made to look like Monokuma (the series» sadistic teddy - bear mascot) to kill adults.

I want to allow minors (in US this is defined as younger than 18 but I'm sure it varies country to country) to use my app the same way as an adult would, but I'm concerned about the following:

Ofcom reported in October that in the UK young adults use Facebook on mobile more than they do on PCs, and this shift to mobile meant there was less browsing time spent on the social network.

Regarding the psychological wellbeing of the young adults, those from female - headed households showed lower levels of anxiety, depression, hostility and problematic alcohol use than their counterparts from traditional families, and higher levels of self - esteem, indicating more positive psychological adjustment among young adults who had grown up in solo and lesbian mother homes, with no difference between the two.

Young adults use the medium of the text message much more than any other new media to transmit messages of a sexual nature, [7] and teenagers who have unlimited text messaging plans are more likely to receive sexually explicit texts.

In contrast to Masters and Johnson's famous «Use it or lose it» philosophy, the Crucible Approach says most people are better in bed in their 40s, 50s and 60s, than they were as young adults.

Best friends were used most and more than others as a safe haven; but were used less by young adults (vs. early adolescents) and by older adolescents with romantic partners.

Many offenders, both young and adult, whose misdemeanor offenses are related more to the symptoms of mental illness and substance use than to truly criminal behavior, are poorly served in a criminal justice system that offers little in the way of structured treatment.

We found larger effect sizes with parent - report and mixed methods, which are commonly used with younger children, than with the AAI and self - report measures, which are used with late adolescents and (young) adults.

Young adults still tend to dominate social networking and are twice as likely to use social networking sites every day than older adults.