Sentences with phrase «worse than that of the general population»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Data collection on Indigenous prisoner health status is very poor, however, given the extensive evidence of Indigenous health inequality, it is reasonable to assume that Indigenous prisoners would experience «a health status the same or probably worse than that of the general prisoner population».