Sentences with phrase «younger than the general population»

People with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder die on average 15 - 20 years younger than the general population, and smoking plays a massive part in that.

The Indigenous population in Canada is younger than the general population and so it has higher numbers of young men.

However, the number of lawyers of these backgrounds tend to be younger than the general population, meaning many of them are not yet eligible.

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And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

And while young people in general tend to vote at lower rates than the population as a whole, the signs are that student turnout in 2015 will be high.

But today's statistics bear out the impression gun and knife crime is most prevalent among young people, with 21 - to 29 - year - olds more than twice as likely to be murdered as the general population.

And because a higher proportion of young people vote Democratic than the general population, the net effect of Facebook's GOTV effort would have been to help the Dems.

The SMRs were also consistent across all age groups, except for the age - group younger than 30 years in whom a non-significantly higher death rate was observed (SMR 1.65) compared to the general population.

Everyone knows that older workers earn more than younger ones, but our survey showed that in the life sciences the trend is stronger and continues longer than in the general population.

Such younger siblings have a 1 in 5 chance of developing autism — 14 times higher than children in the general population.

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

Another study found that divers are at risk for back problems at a younger age than the general population.

Ready Player One is based on Ernest Cline's best - selling 2011 novel and tells the story of Wade Owen Watts (Tye Sheridan), a young man living in a dystopian future where the general population spends most of its time in the virtual reality landscape of OASIS rather than the real world.

«The ban is particularly offensive with respect to young women, as women between the ages of 18 and 21 are much less likely to engage in violent crime than older members of the general population who are unaffected by the ban.»

Statistics show that young men tend to drive more aggressively and to take more risks behind the wheel than the general driving population, and their accident rates reflects this.

Indigenous children and young people are removed from their families at a higher rate than the general population in Australia.

Episodes of shorter duration (between 1 and 3 days) during which young people experience manic symptoms are certainly much more common than classical (hypo --RRB- mania in general population samples.3 In addition, evidence from longitudinal clinical studies suggests that up to 40 % of people who experience such shorter episodes (often termed BD - not otherwise specified, BD - NOS) may go on to develop classical (4 — 7 days) BD.9 However, more evidence is required to decide whether these short - lived episodes of mania - like symptoms are aetiologically linked with BD.

Older men with substance use disorders are at greater risk for nonfatal attempts and for death by suicide than are younger persons.10, 11 Past suicide attempts are a strong risk factor for subsequent suicidal behaviors in those with substance use disorders.12 Depressed mood is a risk factor for suicidal behaviors in the general population and also predicts a greater likelihood of suicide in those with alcohol or drug use disorders.3, 6,10 The link between depression and suicidal behaviors in those with substance use disorders may be particularly strong given the high comorbidity between mood and substance use disorders.13 Although it has not been examined thoroughly, independent mood disorders and substance - induced mood disorders are likely to confer risk for suicide.

As the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population is much younger than the general Australian population, we weighted the Australian ITC Project results to the distribution of age (18 — 24, 25 — 34, 35 — 44, 45 — 54, ≥ 55 years), sex and smoking status (smoker, ex-smoker, never - smoker) in the total Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in the 2008 NATSISS, analogous to direct standardised comparisons.

Today indigenous children and young people continue to be removed from their families at a higher rate than the general population.